Canadians for Language Fairness

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Canadians for Language Fairness is an organization in Canada that campaigns against the current application and enforcement of official bilingualism policy of various jurisdictions within the country. Canadians for Language Fairness state that the faulty application and enforcement of official bilingualism policy by the Federal Government over the years has unfairly increased the French (first language) employees from a minority to an overwhelming majority, so it is now virtually impossible for any unilingual to get a full time job with the Federal Government in the Ottawa area. Canadians for Language Fairness maintain the Federal Bureaucrats have violated their own guidelines by not hiring their English (first language)employees and French (first language) employees in proportion to their numbers in the local population. The organization had taken the City of Ottawa to court over the city's bilingualism policy which requires all upper echelon positions to be fully bilingual. Canadians for Language Fairness were forced to take this action to protect the jobs of all unilinguals who represent the majority in Ottawa. Canadians for Language Fairness maintain that the City of Ottawa is following a similar path to the Federal Government that will over time increasingly discriminate against hiring unilinguals. Canadians for Language Fairness maintain that bilinguals are increasingly treated as a special and elite class to the detriment of all unilinguals.