{"id":1438,"date":"2009-07-01T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:32:50","slug":"corporate-and-bilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/corporate-and-bilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate and bilingual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just been doing some web surfing to see if I need a visa for Canada next month. (I was pretty sure I didn’t, and I was right, but you know how these panic attacks can be …)<\/p>\n

I’m pleased to be able to report that the Canada Border Services Agency “delivers innovative border management<\/a>“. Or, if you like (this is Canada) L’Agence des services frontaliers du Canada “assure une gestion novatrice de la fronti\u00e8re<\/a>“. Which means pretty much the same thing.<\/p>\n

I personally wouldn’t want my border services agency to be innovative. I would want them to keep the bad guys out and let the good guys in, which as far as I’m aware is a quite traditional interpretation of the role. Any development thereon may not be such a good thing.<\/p>\n

I await the innovativity both with interest and avec l’int\u00e9r\u00eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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