The State Government's role in regional Western Australia was recognised in Perth this week when two
of the year's StateWest Achievement Awards were won by
public sector employees working in fields that service
predominantly regional areas.
As a professional working in both official languages day in and day out, I found a recent study conducted by the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine and the Institut de recherche sur le français en Amérique particularly interesting: nearly 14 %
of employees in Quebec's education, health and
public sectors predominantly use English as a language
of work and this, with Anglophones only representing 9 %
of Quebec's population (the study was based on the 2006 census).