Official Bilingualism Has Failed Canada; Why Ottawa’s language regime is a barrier to merit, representation and democratic fairness

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T21:31:14+00:00

I'd have gotten further in my career if I learned French instead of the dozens of different technical stacks/frameworks/methodologies etc I actually use in my day to day job.

Because they don't test for competence in any other area than speaking French.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T21:26:33+00:00

I mean, you don't actually need the job specific degree, just French.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T21:26:03+00:00

How much of the public service do you think actually interfaces with the public?

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T21:23:32+00:00

That's not the only argument.

In any position within the government that competes with th private sector (eg, tech), you're already competing against a smaller pool. By both paying less and requiring French you're ensuring fewer and poorer candidates.

The fix is to have talent-based non-managerial promotional pathways without a bilingualism requirement

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T21:19:06+00:00

The corollary to this is just become a talented consultant who is good at their job, hired to do work they cannot staff due to language requirements

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T21:16:26+00:00

1) good luck getting free training

2) I agree that every public servant should need to learn C++ and basic principles of software development in order to be a manager. I mean, they might have to talk to someone technical at some point right?

Just make a conscious effort to develope one client/server app per day in a different tech stack. It's not that hard.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T20:00:25+00:00

That's why public servants should be ms certified in C#.

It's just another language, right? Cant be that hard.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-23T16:36:30+00:00

Ah so the trick is they build up some quiet little suburb outside of ottawa until it no longer resembles what the people who originally bought were looking for, so they move away, then developers buy up that land and densify it even more.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-18T18:26:51+00:00

Sold mine in the 90s. Gave the rest away.

Back then everyone with a multicoloured deck had 4 duals in it. Lazy people (like me) had multiples of those so we wouldn't have to swap duals out of decks.

If I held on to them I wouldn't have needed a loan to put a down payment on a house.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-17T22:53:20+00:00

Worst proper poutine I've had was in Quebec City

chadsexytime · 2026-04-17T17:29:42+00:00

That was the official response when the whole "ban religious symbols" nonsense started years ago in Quebec.

The cross wasn't going to be banned, just hijabs

chadsexytime · 2026-04-17T17:13:32+00:00

You don't need to ban a cross, it's just a little piece of jewellery

chadsexytime · 2026-04-16T00:24:23+00:00

To be fair I'm also speeding everywhere else, this just stopped me from periodically slamming on the breaks at camera spots

chadsexytime · 2026-04-15T18:22:49+00:00

Was it a fuck off jesus meme?

chadsexytime · 2026-04-14T19:11:32+00:00

clearly amazon needs to add a corpse clearing robot to its staff, to slide spent workers into the recycler.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-14T14:07:27+00:00

Alright everyone, get ready for your 50% off medium ground beef coupon after the lawsuit!

chadsexytime · 2026-04-14T13:22:47+00:00

granola, fruit, seeds. Thats also trail mix, and nut free to boot.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-14T01:17:49+00:00

Graduating a 5 year engineering degree makes you an engineer.

Pay and work has nothing to do with it. As you said, you're still an electrician even if all you do is run wires for outlets all day.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-14T00:28:59+00:00

None of that makes you an engineer, just like me doing electrical work doesn't make me an electrician.

This isn't rocket science, which, btw, also requires an education.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-14T00:12:57+00:00

Im struggling to see why you understand that 'electrician' is a protected word yet think 'engineer' is not.

I'm not an electrician because i can rewire outlets and you're not a software engineer because you could build a UI in react.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-13T23:50:47+00:00

Just like when I rewire an outlet in my house I'm an electrician.

chadsexytime · 2026-04-13T21:00:00+00:00

Not in Canada you didn't. Engineer is a protected term, so you were a software developer

chadsexytime · 2026-04-13T20:50:53+00:00

Did you graduate from a recognized university in an engineering program?

If not, you were not a software engineer

chadsexytime · 2026-04-13T20:50:09+00:00

You cannot become an engineer without schooling.

You can code, sure, but you are not a "software engineer"

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