Senior civil servants explored offering Indigenous-language training to federal employees and possible exemptions to those who already speak one from requiring fluency in both English and French, newly released documents show.
A memo, released to The Canadian Press under federal access-to-information laws, flagged a "growing tension" between official-language requirements and Indigenous languages.
"My own personal view is there are opportunities for exemption — if the individual speaks an Indigenous language," Gina Wilson, a deputy minister who champions the needs of federal Indigenous public servants, wrote in an email to colleagues last November.
Language training has been identified as one of the issues preventing Indigenous employees in the federal public service from advancing in their careers. "Inevitably, when you have to make one of those decisions, it is more often than not, and almost always, at the expense of jettisoning French," said Miller, who represents a riding in Montreal.
"I certainly recall during my French classes having this nagging thought in the back of my mind that I would be so much more open to this if I had the opportunity to be given training in my own Algonquin language," Wilson wrote in her email.Miller said he supports the idea of Ottawa providing classes, particularly to Indigenous public servants who were not provided the chance to learn these languages for themselves.
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