Audit of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat within the context of the 2011–2012 Strategic and Operating Review (Part VII of the Official Languages Act)

As well, the Commissioner wrote to the Secretary of include specific timelines, performance indicators that will help the the Treasury Board in May 2010 to ensure that obligations under institution to evaluate the success of its measures, and areas of Part VII of the Act would be factored into the decision-making responsibility, including the individuals or units accountable for the process for th [...] The Commissioner of Official Languages recommends that the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat provide detailed official The preamble to the grid states that “this grid should be completed languages requirements in the drafting guidance for federal in collaboration with the person in charge of the initiative and institutions during expenditure review exercises. [...] It could be advisable to consult the legal services of the institution.” While it appears from the wording in this preamble that a) include specific guidance for the systematic and mandatory the grid was developed with the intention of its being completed analysis of the impact of the institutions’ expenditure review together with federal institutions, it was never included in the initial proposal [...] When asked why the grid had not been shared with the institutions, the sector responsible for creating the grid responded that the objective of the grid was to inform the Secretariat’s analysts and not to provide guidance to institutions. [...] We believe that if the tools on official languages had been Our review of the process used during the SOR was based provided to the analysts at the beginning of the process, they might primarily on information received during interviews with analysts, have helped the analysts to emphasize the importance that needed to managers and senior executives involved in the file.