BUREAU DU CONSEIL PRIV THE PRIVY COUNCIL

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UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR LA DUALITÉ LINGUISTIQUE
CANADIENNE GETTING OUR ACT TOGETHER FOR
CANADAS OFFICIAL LANGUAGES PROGRAM
BUREAU DU CONSEIL PRIVÉ PRIVY COUNCIL
OFFICE ANNE SCOTTON DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES
LANGUES OFFICIELLES OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
BRANCH Forming-up for a Horizontal Initiative
The Journey from Policy Formulation to
Implementation Établir les bases dune initiative
horizontale de lélaboration des politiques à
la mise en uvre April/Avril/2005
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Overview of Presentation

• Official Languages policy in the Federal
  Government and the Program for Official Languages
  (OLP)
• Horizontal Results-based Management and
  Accountability Framework (HRMAF) for the Official
  Languages Program Design and Development
• Results Reporting
• Implementation of the Framework

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Official Languages
A Government of Canada priority

• Royal Commission on Bilingualism and
  Biculturalism 1968
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Official Languages Act 1988
• Throne speeches of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
• The Action Plan for Official Languages 2003
• Group of Cabinet Ministers on Official Languages

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The Action Plan for Official Languages

• The Next Act New Momentum for Canadas
  Linguistic Duality A renewed policy statement,
  announced in March, 2003
• Demonstrates continued Governments commitment to
  linguistic duality
• Calls for a Minister Responsible for Official
  Languages, supported by a Group of Ministers
  with responsibilities for Official Languages
• Provides for 751.3 M over 5 years
• Describes an Accountability and Coordination
  Framework which underscores accountability of
  all federal institutions
• Requires Federal institutions to be more
  accountable for official languages, and
  encourages a dynamic, proactive horizontal
  approach

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The Action Plan for Official Languages

• we will have an accountability and
  coordination framework that presents each federal
  institution with its responsibilities, an
  accountability framework that establishes
  unparalleled coordination so that the work of
  each benefits all. The accountability and
  coordination framework provides for more
  communication between the federal government and
  minority official language communities

(p. 62, Action Plan for Official Languages)
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Accountability and Coordination

• The requirement for accountability and
  coordination as set out in the Action Plan led to
  the development of the Horizontal Results-based
  Management and Accountability Framework (HRMAF)
• The HRMAF is designed to strengthen horizontal
  coordination for the Act as a whole, to link
  activities which meet OLA obligations and to
  implement public policy objectives for Official
  Languages
• The HRMAF has been developed in collaboration
  with internal partners and external stakeholders.

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and Horizontality

• The HRMAF for OLP is consistent with the
  Government of Canadas approach to modern
  management requiring managers to look beyond
  activities and outputs and to focus on actual
  results the impacts and effects of their
  programs
• The HRMAF also demonstrates how partners should
  work horizontally to
• exercise authority and take responsibility
  jointly
• invest jointly (resources such as time, funding,
  expertise) and
• manage risks, and share benefits

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HRMAF - The Partners and Stakeholders

• Ten key departments and agencies financed under
  the Action Plan, four of which have key
  responsibilities
• 30 designated departments and agencies under S.
  41 of the OLA develop and submit departmental
  action plans (coordinated by Canadian Heritage)
• Includes over 200 departments, agencies and other
  institutions
• Official Language Minority Communities, Canadian
  Parents for French and all Canadians
• Provinces and Territories
• The Commissioner of Official Languages

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Key Departments and Agencies
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES KEY STAKEHOLDERS

• PCO-OL
• Minister Mauril Bélanger
• Implementation of Action Plan
• Accountability Framework for OL Program
• Coordination and oversight of Government of
  Canada efforts in respect to OLA

• PSC
• President Maria Barrados
• Testing
• Exclusion Order
• Collaborate with CSPS on
• Language Training and Testing
• study
• Linguistic Standards

• CSPS
• Minister Reg Alcock
• Language training diagnostic testing
• Language Training and Testing Study

• Treasury Board
• President Reg Alcock
• Federal policies and programs relating to the
  implementation of Part IV, Service to Public,
  Part V, Language of Work and Part VI,
  Participation of English and French-Speaking
  Canadians in Federal Institutions

• Implement official
• languages policies and
• programs
• Institutions for which TB is
• the employer have the
• choice to send employees
• to Language Training
• Canada for statutory
• training or private schools.

Departments and Agencies

• PSHRMAC
• Minister Reg Alcock
• Development and coordination of federal policies
  and programs relating to Parts IV, V and VI of
  the OLA

• Justice
• Minister Irwin Cotler
• General responsibility for
• OLA
• Legal advice

• Commissioner of
• Official Languages
• Dyane Adam
• Ombudsman
• Investigations
• Liaison
• Monitoring
• Promotion and Education
• Court Intervention

• Canadian Heritage
• Minister Liza Frulla
• Part VII OLA
• Support to minority OL
• Communities
• Foster the full recognition and use of both
• English and French in Canadian society
• Education Transfer Payments and Agreements

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The Framework in Action

• The framework is an ambitious project which
• provides an integrated overview of the OLP, with
  a legislative, policy and program basis
• requires cooperation of federal institutions
  (departments and agencies), the provincial and
  territorial governments, community organizations
  and communities across Canada
• allows for a better understanding of program
  alignment in terms of results, use of resources,
  activities and reporting
• clarifies administrative governance for federal
  institutions and the mechanisms in place to
  support them in their task, i.e. relationship
  between areas where they are responsible for
  vertical delivery, sharing horizontal
  responsibility for the Official Languages Program
  as a whole

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The Framework in Action

• gives an overall perspective on the policy
  connections between priorities activities and
  financial management and the Governments
  progress in general
• incorporates feedback from communities and other
  stakeholders through an annual consultation cycle
  and reporting process and,
• ensures that future policy development and public
  reporting on the Official Languages Program will
  be strengthened by the use of data, research and
  evaluation

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The Logic Model for the Official Language Program

• Most intensely concentrated on the activities of
  ten federal institutions and their partners/
  stakeholders/ recipients
• Includes areas of activity that are
  representative of all federal institutions
• The ultimate result focuses on the benefits of
  linguistic duality
• Canadians enjoy the benefits of linguistic
  duality live and work in communities that
  reflect Canadian values with respect to the use
  of English and French and, have access to
  government services in the language of choice

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Intermediate results

• One addresses the capacity of Canadians to live
  and work in communities in their language and
  the other addresses Canadians awareness of the
  benefits of linguistic duality
• Enhanced capacity of Canadians, English-speaking
  in Quebec and French-speaking across Canada, to
  live and work in vibrant communities in the
  language of choice
• Increased proportion of Canadians are aware of
  the benefits of linguistic duality and have
  access to the services that support it

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There are 8 immediate results for the OLP

• Improved access to justice in both official
  languages
• Increased participation in and improved access to
  education and learning in support of linguistic
  duality
• Improved access to health and social services in
  the language of choice
• Enhanced cultural activities in support of
  Canadian identity
• Strengthened community economic development and
  language industries
• Enhanced community vitality
• Linguistic duality is reinforced in the
  institutions of Canadian society and reflected
  abroad
• Federal institutions respect the Official
  Languages Act and the Constitution

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Overcoming the challenges designing
developing an HRMAF for the OLP

• The realities
• Complex legal and policy framework, scope of
  programs and delivery
• Numerous players - overlapping roles and
  responsibilities
• Lack of effective administrative and operational
  systems
• Fixed timelines
• The strategies
• Formal interdepartmental project structure
• Use of technical experts
• Internal and external consultations
• The successes
• Clear links established between ministerial
  programs/ activities and the desired outcomes
• Identification of data sources and common issues
  for performance measurement and evaluation
• Minority communities and the Provinces/
  Territories consulted in the identification of
  common indicators and data sources

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Results Reporting

• Official Languages, Intergovernmental Affaires,
  Privy Council Office responsible for
• Mid-term Report, to be tabled in Fall 2005, will
  
• Show progress in implementing the Action Plan
  and,
• Present the HRMAF for the Official Languages
  Program of the Government of Canada
• Evaluation of the Action Plan for Official
  Languages - 2007
• Final Report on the Action Plan 2008
• Other Annual Reports to Parliament
• Canadian Heritage
• Public Service Human Resources Management Agency
• The Commissioner of Official Languages

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Implementation - the challenges

• moving from a culture where the focus is
  exclusively on vertical delivery to a culture
  where there is agreement on common objectives
• working in a collaborative manner (with our
  partners and stakeholders)
• developing and implementing, in cooperation with
  key partners, a comprehensive evaluation
  framework which takes into account priorities
  funded under the Action Plan in the period from
  2003 until 2008, and related activities
• application of the Framework to the Official
  Languages Program of the Government of Canada as
  a whole
• implementing electronic tools to coordinate,
  capture, display and manipulate information
  related to the horizontal management of the OLP