Official Languages Act: Layton - Ignorant, Liar or Knave?

The CBC quotation of Jack Layton means he is either ignorant, a liar or a knave as regards the Official Languages Act, an act with quasi-constitutional status as recognised by the Supreme Court. I've defended the Official Languages Act, and the principle of official bilingualism, for all institutions and areas under federal jurisdiction "envers et contre tous", especially with regard to the provision of the French language services. So I write with some credibility when I say that the following quotation from Jack Layon means he is either surprisingly ignorant about the issue, or lying as he knows full well what the law actually is and what are its implications, or a knave because he wants to overturn the Official Languages Act or because he knows he's lying to both sides, but hopes not to be called on it. For Layton to pretend that federally regulated workplaces are not, above all things, supposed to allow the workers to work in the Official Language of their choice is unbelievable. And in geographic areas where one language predominates, it tends to be the one most used, naturally enough: Results of the Survey of Federal Public Servants in Quebec. More effort can and should always be made, everywhere, as the OCOL urges, but to suggest that francophones in federally regulated workplaces in Quebec are not able to work in their first-language is contrary to all the evidence, as risible as it would be to suggest that anglophones in majority anglophone areas are unable to work in English! The real issue is ensuring the right of official language minorities to work in their first official language, notably francophones outside Quebec and Acadia, and anglophones inside Quebec.

Really, for Layton, a somewhat bilingual anglo longtime professional politician of Quebec origins, to pretend otherwise, in the face of a heap of studies, common sense and testimony, is positively despicable, just as is his playing into the factually incorrect and damaging nationalist-separatist narrative on "Quebec" or "Quebeckers" not adhering to the 1982 Constitution Act. See Pôvre...Devoir and also at the end of it, Aide mémoire pour les pervertis cinglés,
Layton open to constitutional talks with Quebec

Layton was also asked by a reporter why more would have to be done to protect the French language in Quebec, given the existence of Bill 101, the current provincial language law.
"We want the principles of the [Quebec] language charter to apply to federally regulated workplaces," Layton said.
"Here's the story," Layton said. "If you're working for a provincially regulated financial institution ... if your first language is French, you have the right to work in French, to have your contract be presented to you ... your instructions as to what you're supposed to do, in your first language so you can understand them.
"If across the corner you're working at La Banque Nationale …, you don't have those rights. It doesn't make sense."