English-Only Hiring OK’d

The Federal Court of Appeal in a rare split decision has ended a three-year legal battle over preferential hiring in the public service. An agency was faulted for skewing a bilingual job search to hire a single candidate who didn’t speak French: “The language of work is no trifling thing.”

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