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1 The Canadian Forces are not part of this exercise but may be the subject of a subsequent audit.[Back]
2 The 2003 Accord on Health Care Renewal concluded in February 2003 includes an action plan for health care reform, which confirms the commitment by governments to work in partnership with each other, with health care professionals and with Canadians in shaping the future of our public health care system. [Back]
3 The three letters represent the levels of proficiency in the second official language, which may be A (lowest), B (intermediate) or C (highest). The first letter represents reading skills; the second, writing skills; and the last, oral interaction. [Back]
4 Imperative staffing: requires a person who meets the language requirements of the position upon appointment to be appointed to a bilingual position. [Back]
5 Either/Or: a unilingual position that allows incumbents to choose their language of work when taking up their duties. [Back]
6 The Royal Commission on Government Organization (also called the Glassco Commission), set up in September 1960, was given the mandate to inquire into and report on the organization and methods of operation of the departments and agencies of the Government of Canada and to recommend changes in an effort to ensure efficient and improved public services while saving money at the same time. [Back]
7 The Offender Management System is the computerized case file management system used by Correctional Service Canada, the National Parole Board and other criminal justice partners to manage information on federal offenders throughout their sentence. The system gathers, stores and retrieves information required for tracking offenders and making decisions concerning their cases. [Back]
8 The Regulations state the data from the most recent decennial census of the population is to be used to define the “minority Francophone or Anglophone population” in order to determine the federal offices for which there is “significant demand” for service under section 22 of the Act. At the time of data collection, CSC had not provided us with the results of the most recent exercise on the implementation principle for the Official Languages (Communications with and Services to the Public) Regulations. [Back]
9 Under demographic rules, as soon as an office in its service area serves a minority language population of 5,000 people or more, or 500 people who represent 5% of the population, that office must provide its services in both official languages. There is significant demand and it is not necessary to demonstrate this to have a duty to comply. [Back]
10 Medical records follow offenders throughout their incarceration. The health care professionals responsible for their care use them to ensure continuity of services. [Back]
