2021–2022 in brief: statistics
- Exceptional year for official languages
- 5,409 admissible complaints
- Increase of 189% compared with last year
- More than 91% of admissible complaints were about incidents in Quebec and in the National Capital Region
- Strong public interest in bilingualism among senior officials, who are supposed to lead by example in promoting linguistic duality
- [Chart of complaints by part of the Act]
- [Part VII] 1,346 admissible complaints about the federal government’s appointment of a Governor General who is not fluent in French
- [Part IV] 2,680 admissible complaints about the speech given in English to a Montréal audience by Air Canada’s President and Chief Executive Officer
- Incident that has generated the highest number of complaints in the history of the Office of the Commissioner
