Pro-tips for Applicants, or Twelve Things I Learned as Commissioner of Official Languages
“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated, and reimagined if it is to survive.” Zadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair”, New York Review of Books, December 22, 2016. When I applied for the position of Commissioner of Official Languages in 2006, I was very conscious of the fact that I had never managed anything. I...