Official language commissioner
The Official Languages Commissioner (Engl. Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages , French. Commissariat aux langues officielles ) is an agency of the Government of Canada , for the enforcement and promotion of the Official Languages Act is responsible. Its task is to receive complaints from citizens, to conduct investigations and to make recommendations regarding the status of the two official languages.
The Official Languages Act, revised in 1988, gives the Authority and the Commissioner, whose term of office lasts seven years, three main tasks: ensuring equality of English and French within the Canadian federal administration and in authorities affected by the law, maintaining and developing the linguistic communities and ensuring equality of English and French in Canadian society as a whole.
Official language commissioners
- Keith Spicer , 1970-1977
- Maxwell Yalden , 1977-1984
- D'Iberville Fortier , 1984-1991
- Victor C. Goldbloom , 1991-1999
- Dyane Adam , 1999-2006
- Graham Fraser , since 2006