Report on Annual Expenditures for Travel, Hospitality and Conferences 2013-14

As required by the Treasury Board Directive on Travel, Hospitality, Conference and Events Expenditures, this report provides information on the annual expenditures for each of travel, hospitality and conference fees for the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. It also provides the variance explanations from the previous fiscal year in each of these areas.

This information is updated annually and does not contain information withheld under the Access to Information Act or the Privacy Act.

Expenditures on travel, hospitality and conference fees incurred by federal departments and agencies are related to activities that support a departmental or agency mandate and the government’s priorities.

To fulfill its mandate, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL) oversees the full implementation of the Official Languages Act, protects the language rights of Canadians and promotes linguistic duality and bilingualism in Canada.

OCOL strives to accomplish this mandate through activities that raise awareness among federal institutions and other organizations subject to the Official Languages Act so that linguistic duality is an important element of leadership. These activities also aim to promote to Canada’s two official language communities the value of linguistic duality as one of the key elements of Canadian identity, and support official language minority communities in order to enhance their development and vitality.