OQLF demands more French at McGill
The OQLF is flexing against McGill, demanding all communications with its many workers be also issued in French. As an employer, I suppose the university can’t plead the law about being an anglo cultural institution.
Kevin 19:18 on 2023-03-22 Permalink
This is the pettiest of flexes.
The next stage is requiring The Gazette to send internal emails in French.
Ian 08:00 on 2023-03-23 Permalink
It’s really not that big a deal. McGill uses Office 365.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/translator-for-outlook-3d7e12ed-99d6-406e-a453-b9db0d9653fa
shawn 08:53 on 2023-03-23 Permalink
My org uses Office 365 too although we don’t rely on machine translation. I’m as anglo as they come but McGill SHOULD correspond with its staff in both languages. Voyons.
Paul 11:55 on 2023-03-23 Permalink
How does the law define it now?
Does every single email need to be in French or just company wide emails from senior execs?? The first scenario would make no sense, so where is the cut-off for what needs to be in French vs not??
shawn 13:30 on 2023-03-23 Permalink
I assume it’s referring to official communications, not emails between individuals.