Canadians for Language Fairness is an organization in Canada that campaigns against the application and enforcement of the Official bilingualism in Canada policy in various jurisdictions within the country. Canadians for Language Fairness states that the application and enforcement of Official bilingualism in Canada policy by the Federal Government over the years has unfairly increased the French (first language) employees to 64.8% (countrywide as per Treasury Board Annual Report on Official Languages : http://www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/arp-rpa/2009/st-ts/tbl07/tbl16-eng.htm ) of all Public service employees. Canadians for Language Fairness maintain the Treasury Board (see ref) and Federal Bureaucrats have violated their own guidelines by not hiring according to the guideline "where numbers warrant". Pierre Poilievre (MP in Ottawa)said that there are 51% of the public service made up of unilingual English speakers but fail to inform that most of these are in the lower echelons and have no opportunity to advance because of the "glass ceiling" imposed by Official Bilingualism. With only 22.6% (2006 census)of the total population made up of French-speakers and most of them in Quebec & New Brunswick and only 3% of them outside Quebec, this policy discriminates against the English-speaking majority of Canada. 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 maintain that the City of Ottawa is following a similar path to the Federal Government that will over time increasingly discriminate against hiring unilingual English employees. Canadians for Language Fairness maintain that bilinguals are increasingly treated as a special and elite class to the detriment of English unilinguals.
Part VIII : Responsibilities and duties of the TREASURY BOARD in relation to the Official languages of Canada
Dyane Adam, Commissioner of official languages, May 10, 2006.
Core Public Administration as of March 31, 2006. When French first speakers were 24% of the Canadian population.