Statement by Major General Walter Semianiw, CF Official Languages Champion, on Official Languages at CFB Borden

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CMP/CPM - November 7, 2007
Ottawa Major General Walter Semianiw, Chief of Military Personnel and Canadian Forces (CF) Official Languages Champion, issued the following statement today in response to concerns expressed by the Ombudsman regarding Official Languages (OL) promotion at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden:
"CFB Borden is the home of several unique CF schools that train many of the CF's support troops, technicians and specialists. It is a vital part of the personnel training system that supports the CF missions at home and abroad.
We share the Ombudsman's concerns with respect to CFB Borden and have taken immediate measures to improve the delivery of training and services to French-speaking students at CFB Borden. These include:
Briefings to ensure the leadership, the instructional staff and the students at CFB Borden are better aware of the linguistic rights of students to have instruction in their language of choice;
Implementing a streamlined system to promptly address complaints and any OL service delivery problems at the base; and
Monitoring measures to keep the leaders informed of the level of performance of the base and schools and to enable prompt corrective action.
The Ombudsman has acknowledged our actions to improve the OL environment at CFB Borden.
CFB Borden is developing a plan to address the mid to long-term issues that challenge the delivery of instruction in French.
The CF is committed to implementing its OL policy in alignment with the Official Languages Act and as outlined in the National Defence Official Languages Transformation Model. This model will allow us to provide linguistically qualified people in the right place at the right time, at home and abroad to complete the CF's assigned missions.
DND/CF appreciates the good work of the Ombudsman and his staff. We will continue to work closely with the Ombudsman to resolve the OL challenges at CFB Borden as quickly as possible."
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