<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-title" id="gmail-page-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:2rem;line-height:2rem;font-family:clear_sansbold,Times,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0.5rem 0.5rem 0.5rem 0.2rem;clear:both;width:724px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(51,102,153);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Canada’s official languages : policy versus work practice in the Federal public service</h1><div class="gmail-view gmail-view-field-collection-view-repo-files gmail-view-id-field_collection_view_repo_files gmail-view-display-id-embed_5 gmail-repo-item gmail-available-formats gmail-view-dom-id-2571769cb82a9ca436d80bffcad65e3f" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:724px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-view-header" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:724px;margin:0px;padding:5px"><h2 class="gmail-block__title gmail-block-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:clear_sansbold,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px">Available Formats:</h2></div><div class="gmail-view-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:724px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-view-list" style="box-sizing:border-box"><ul class="gmail-view-list-ul" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style-type:none"><li class="gmail-views-row gmail-views-row-1 gmail-views-row-odd gmail-views-row-first gmail-views-row-last" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:709.516px;margin:5px;padding:5px;list-style-type:none"><div class="gmail-file-size-warning-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:6.98438px 69.9375px 0px 0px;padding:5px;float:right;font-size:14.4px;max-height:40px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></div><div class="gmail-views-field gmail-views-field-field-s3-file-upload" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:419.703px;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline-block"><div class="gmail-field-content" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-daisy-icon-login gmail-generic-file-icon" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;height:40px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background:url("/sites/default/themes/NNELS_CALS_v001/images/icon_download.png") 0% 0% no-repeat;float:left"><a href="https://nnels.ca/user/login?destination=node/207145" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:clear_sans_mediumregular;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(14,62,108);outline:0px;display:block;width:307.859px;height:auto;margin:0px;padding:8px 5px 5px 40px">Login to access EPUB 3 (530.54 KB)</a></span></div></div><div class="gmail-views-field gmail-views-field-field-publisher-format" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:699.516px;margin:0px;padding:5px"><span class="gmail-views-label gmail-views-label-field-publisher-format" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:22px;font-family:clear_sansbold,sans-serif">Publisher: </span><div class="gmail-field-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline">University of Ottawa Press, <span class="gmail-date-display-single" style="box-sizing:border-box">2019</span></div></div><div class="gmail-views-field gmail-views-field-field-description" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:699.516px;margin:0px;padding:5px"><span class="gmail-views-label gmail-views-label-field-description" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:22px;font-family:clear_sansbold,sans-serif">Note: </span><span class="gmail-field-content" style="box-sizing:border-box">This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.</span></div></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="gmail-view gmail-view-field-collection-view-commercially-available gmail-view-id-field_collection_view_commercially_available gmail-view-display-id-embed_5 gmail-repo-item gmail-comercially-available gmail-public gmail-view-dom-id-14a7064f80e65b426c1fde91784f6ab0" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:724px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"></div><div class="gmail-view gmail-view-repository-item-detail-page-embedded gmail-view-id-repository_item_detail_page_embedded gmail-view-display-id-embed_1 gmail-repo-item gmail-detail gmail-view-dom-id-3aeaaa39913644062d605ef199bdc4a9" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:724px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-view-header" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:724px;margin:0px;padding:5px"><h2 class="gmail-block__title gmail-block-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:clear_sansbold,sans-serif;m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</div></li></ul></div></div></div><ul class="gmail-links gmail-inline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px"><li class="gmail-comment_forbidden gmail-first gmail-last" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://nnels.ca/user/login?destination=node/207145%23comment-form" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:clear_sans_mediumregular;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(14,62,108);outline:0px">Log in</a> to post comments</span></li></ul><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>