<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-top_head">Tache passes bilingualism bylaw</h1>
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By: <strong>Jordan Ross</strong>
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Posted: <span>09/29/2017 8:45 AM</span>
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<p>The RM of Tache has adopted a municipal-wide bilingual language policy.</p>
<p>A Tuesday vote on the new bylaw was carried 7-1. Ward 2 councillor George McGregor cast the lone opposing vote.</p>
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<p>Mayor Robert Rivard later explained McGregor did not
dislike the bylaw, but merely did not see its relevance for the LUD of
Landmark. If any language policy was to be of practical benefit there,
Rivard said, it would likely need to be German-English, rather than
French-English.</p>
<p>"This is a French bilingual bylaw," Rivard said. "He’s not opposed to it, he’s just wondering why one instead of the other."</p>
<p>The bylaw received first and second
reading in August, following a June delegation from Louis Tetrault,
executive director of the Association of Manitoba Bilingual
Municipalities (AMBM), and Yann Boissonneault, chair of the Tache
Development Corporation.</p>
<p>The bylaw will allow Tache as a whole to
become an AMBM member, opening up translation services and grant
opportunities that were previously only available to the LUD of Lorette,
which had been an AMBM member for some time.</p>
<p>The wording of the bylaw leaves
signage, hiring, and public service changes to the discretion of
council and administration, to avoid costly switchovers and exclusionary
rules.</p>
<p>"We wanted to make sure that…it’s not
going to impose anything," Rivard said. "The municipality in general
will go bilingual where people want it."</p>
<p>Thus, the measures contained in the bylaw
will be implemented "inasmuch as reasonably possible." Moving forward,
CAO Christine Hutlet will ensure at least one administrative employee is
bilingual, and hire bilingual employees "where practical." Municipal
council and LUD of Lorette meeting minutes will be posted in French and
English, with translation of other documents available upon request.</p>
<p>Any unilingual Tache road and office signage will be made bilingual only when in need of replacement.</p>
<p>The municipality will also ask the
Province of Manitoba to install bilingual signs on its roadways and
properties within Tache’s municipal boundaries.</p>
<p>As per an amendment to the bylaw, all signage shall be bilingual within the LUD of Lorette.</p>
The bylaw’s preamble noted Tache
"has a tradition of more than a century of equitable service to the
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