By Andréanne Langevin
This morning I learned something new. I was skimming through the local news and I saw an article that caught my attention: Quel avenir pour la prime au bilinguisme? (What is the future of the bilingual bonus?) In the article, the journalist explains how federal government workers can earn a lump sum of 800$ per year if they can prove their bilingualism (with a language test). She also writes how this bonus was implemented in 1977 and was supposed to be abolished in 1983 once the government had successfully populated its various departments with enough bilinguals to serve the Francophone and Anglophone populations. However, the bonus was never abolished and it now represents about 60 million a year in federal taxpayer money (Beaudoin, 2019).
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