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A. The Applicant’s duties within the OSFI ........................................................................... 17
B. Findings of fact ................................................................................................................. 23
C. History of the complaint ................................................................................................... 25
(1)
Chronology................................................................................................................ 25
D. Final investigation report .................................................................................................. 26
(1)
(2)
Training and professional development services ...................................................... 26
Work tools and computer systems............................................................................. 29
IV.
V.
VI.
Legal framework............................................................................................................... 30
Issues................................................................................................................................. 30
The Court has jurisdiction to consider whether the OSFI has complied with
section 36(1)(c) and section 36(2). ................................................................................... 31
VII. Principles of interpretation of institutional official language provisions of the OLA ...... 36
(1)
(2)
Purposive interpretation ............................................................................................ 36
The jurisprudence only supports a purposive interpretation to assist provincial
official language minority communities.................................................................... 37
Parliament distinguished between the purpose of official bilingualism in federal
institutions, and that of supporting provincial minority official language
communities .............................................................................................................. 41
The OLA has re-balanced past disadvantages of the Francophone minority
community in federal institutions.............................................................................. 46
The methodology of applying a purposive interpretation ......................................... 48
The bilingual interpretation of sections 36(1)(a)(i) and 36(2) .................................. 49
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
VIII. Services provided to federal institution personnel pursuant to paragraph 36(1)(a) of the
OLA .................................................................................................................................. 52
A. Introduction....................................................................................................................... 52
(1)
Treasury Board Policies and Directives on Official Languages and Training and
Professional Development......................................................................................... 55
(a) The 2004 Policy on Language of Work.................................................................. 55
(b) The 2012 Policy on Official Languages ................................................................. 57
(c) 2017 Policy on Learning, Training, and Development........................................... 58
(2)
The Submissions of the Parties on the Interpretation of the Services Provision....... 60
(a) The Applicant’s Submissions ................................................................................. 60
(b) The Commissioner’s revised submissions.............................................................. 61
(c) The Respondent’s Submissions .............................................................................. 63
B. The Interpretation of section 36(1)(a)(i)........................................................................... 66
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Introduction ............................................................................................................... 66
Define and follow the scheme of the provision......................................................... 68
Definitions of “services” ........................................................................................... 69
Services provided to employees “as individuals” ..................................................... 73
Services to support employees in the performance of their duties “services
auxiliaires”................................................................................................................. 77
(a) The verbal phrase “provided to support employees in the performance of their
duties” is redundant to the meaning of “services” ................................................. 77
(b) “in the performance of duties” may be deduced contextually in the term
“auxiliaire” ............................................................................................................. 80