Does Western Alienation exist, and how can we fix it?

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Bilingualism sets the stage of government employment. It shouldn't be a prerequisite for government employment as it favour parts of the nation over others which forms government choices and decisions.

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This is not solely directed at you but I will respond because it's definitely a common view.

For starters bilingualism is not usually a prerequisite and free on-the-job paid training is provided to non-bilingual candidates the feds want to hire.

In any event, if the bilingualism rules are to be dumbed down then it would require a significant re-tooling of how the federal public service works.

Either certain services and administrative work would be downloaded to Quebec when the stuff needs to happen in French, or these services remain in the federal public service fold but English only and French only work units are created. As was suggested by the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission in the 1960s but was ruled out by the Liberals of the day who preferred to current system we have.

In any event personally I don't think we will be going back to the old days when francophones who worked in the public service had to park their language at door - at least not any more than they already have to today even with official bilingualism in the workplace. Though YMMV with that.

Also it's interesting that we're living in an era of great openness to accommodation (and I'd argue even an extreme openness to it in the ROC) but this is one specific area that is arguably accommodation as well but where there is persistent talk of scaling things back.