New Edition of PERSPECTIVES
October 20, 2014
A new edition of the Military Grievances External Review Committee’s publication Perspectives is now published. The publication's aim is to share with Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) authorities issues found common to several cases in an effort to promote better understanding of a particular topic. Perspectives also serves to raise decision-makers’ awareness of broader issues and trends which have come to the Committee’s attention during the review of grievances.
In this edition, the Committee will discuss whether certain practices and measures put in place by the CAF to implement Defence Administrative Order and Directive (DAOD) 5039-6, Delivery of Training and Education in Both Official Languages, actually meet the requirements of this DAOD and, more importantly, the relevant provisions of the Official Languages Act. The Committee has reviewed several grievances in which the complainants submitted that they were denied access to individual training and education in the official language of their choice. In several of these cases, the Committee found breaches of DAOD 5039-6 and provided recommendations of a systemic nature to alert the Chief of the Defence Staff to the need to address these issues.