Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, I had entered the names of witnesses. I don't know who selected the witnesses or how that was done, but the name of a person like Michel Doucet does not appear on it.

Official Languages committee  Why do the names of certain persons, like Michel Doucet and Pierre Foucher, not appear on the list?

Official Languages committee  It's Michel Doucet.

Official Languages committee  There was also the president of the Société des Acadiens et Acadiennes du Nouveau-Brunswick. I had indicated the name of the director. I don't know whether the president has refused to come, I don't know, but there was the president, Marie-Pierre Simard.

Official Languages committee  I know that it's stated on your list: the acting director.

Official Languages committee  She has just been appointed. I want to know whether Marie-Pierre Simard, the president, has been invited.

Official Languages committee  As for the others, we will send them... I don't want to take any more time, because there are only three minutes left.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, I don't think that the fact that she and her government delegated another person releases her from her responsibility under the act. I want the motion to remain as it is. I want us to invite her and to move forward, because we have to see what we're going to do with

Official Languages committee  I'm ready to vote.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, I have no objection to deleting Ms. Oda's name. However, in view of the time we have left, I would like us not to waste time hearing from her, because an invitation has already been made, as Ms. Boucher said. Instead we should ask a question and ask for a written an

Official Languages committee  It isn't the people who work at Radio-Canada—that is to say the journalists and all those people—who lead, who hold the power. When a cat is run over on Saint-Catherine Street, they aren't the ones who interrupt the news in the Atlantic to show the poor dead cat; it's the senior

Official Languages committee  Commissioner, I'm going to tell you how many times the program L'Atlantique en direct has been interrupted since January, before it was taken off RDI. I'm going to send that to you; you'll see what I'm talking about.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much.

Official Languages committee  If you have a good question, I agree.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Now it's Radio-Canada's turn. What is its mandate? You must know that the SNA, the Société nationale de l'Acadie, is preparing to challenge the CBC/Radio-Canada's mandate. The corporation is paid for by Canadian taxpayers. When I use the terms “national”