Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Minister responsible for the Official Languages Act, I can say that our department, ECE, I don't believe we are legislatively required to provide language interpretation training, but we have taken it upon ourselves to work towards that goal. Right now, there is a lack of Indigenous language speakers in the territory, as the Member knows. It makes it difficult to train interpreters when there are not enough people who speak the language to pick from. There are a number of things happening right now. A lot of those are helping us work towards training enough language speakers so that we can begin to better train language interpreters. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
R.J. Simpson on Question 207-19(2): Succession Planning for Interpreters Training
In the Legislative Assembly on March 13th, 2020. See this statement in context.
Question 207-19(2): Succession Planning for Interpreters Training
Oral Questions
March 13th, 2020
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