2.4 $ billion dollars a year for being a “Bilingual”country!

This current year 2012 the Fraser Institute, conducted a report discovering how much money Canada spends a year for being a Bilingual country.When we are talking about “Canada”we are talking of “taxpayers” so every single law abiding citizen who pays his own taxes!!

 This annual cost includes language services (also English language services in Quebec) such as education,translation and bilingual signage.

"The issue we examine in this study is not whether bilingualism is good or bad policy, but the costs above and beyond that of providing education and other services in the majority language,” Francois Vaillancourt, a Universite de Montreal economics professor, said in a statement.

 According to one of the authors of the study claim, a way to reduce the costs for tax payers would be making greater use of the private sector for translations therefore public taxes shouldn't be payed at least in translation.And also an additional point would be that in the last three decades French in most of the Canadian cities is being outpaced by other languages such as Italian,Chinese and German.

  

Check out how much!!!!!

 Ontario spends the most: $623 million annually

New Brunswick:$85 million, followed by Quebec at $50 million.

Alberta:spends $33 million on bilingual services ($534.70 per francophone),

B.C. spends $23 million ($426.90 per francophone),

Nova Scotia spends $18 million ($540.10 per francophone),

Manitoba spends $16 million ($410.20 per francophone),

Saskatchewan spends $9.65 million ($640.50 per francophone),

Prince Edward Island spends $5.1 million ($946.20 per francophone)

 Newfoundland and Labrador spends $3.4 million ($1780.30 per francophone).

Sources:

-http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/bilingualism-costs-taxpayers-2-4-billion-173241373.html

-http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/16/bilingualism-canada-cost-french_n_1209205.html