• D’Entremont on Paramedics

    Here is the explanation of why the paramedic situation is being managed the way it is. In September of 2013, our Language Commissioner received a complaint about language service on an ambulance call. The two ambulance attendants were unilingual English and were responding to a call to a French individual. Their lack of capability in […more]
  • UNDERSTANDING DUALITY

    Sorry this is complicated but there are actually four types of duality: • Education duality • Healthcare duality • Linguistic Duality • Busing duality   Education Duality This came about as a demand by the Francophone community and was codified into law in Bill 88 in 1982. That Bill specified that the Francophone community would […more]