Official Languages committee  Are you talking about Part VII of the act?

Official Languages committee  Thank you.

Official Languages committee  All the work has been completed on the report on Part VII of the Official Languages Act.

Official Languages committee  If it's a report on the project, yes, that's been done.

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  Are you talking about the committee of deputy ministers? That committee is bilingual. As you know, it is co-chaired by deputy ministers Richard Dicerni, from Industry Canada, and Yaprak Baltacioglu. It's a completely bilingual committee: all the documentation is in both languages

Official Languages committee  We don't discuss official language issues; we discuss economic trends in both official languages. If you're asking us whether we consider the official language issue in Canada in that committee, I would tell you that it would be in the context of economic issues, not in the conte

Official Languages committee  Yes, that's the case.

Official Languages committee  As I indicated in the report on plans and priorities, everything we do with regard to official languages is an integral part of our everyday work. So it's about service to the public, our offer, about service to employees. That's an integral part of our work. We aren't like the

Official Languages committee  Are you talking, for example, about the committee on the economy? As I said earlier, all the meetings of the deputy ministers committees are conducted in both languages. The documentation, discussions, presentations, everything is done in both languages. As I said, that's an inte

Official Languages committee  That depends. As we said, our ratings are based on five sectors. For each of them, we had to look at what could be done to improve the situation. Offer of service was really a big problem for us. As you said, we started from scratch. So we clearly had a problem and we made a maj

Official Languages committee  It's especially in the area of active offer that we've made significant improvements. Since there is employee turnover, that is to say that since some employees arrive and others leave, it's absolutely necessary to remain watchful and not to stop trying on the ground that we've r

Official Languages committee  In fact, 85% of our employees are located outside the National Capital. That is to say that 15% are here. Some are spread out up and down the west coast. We have offices everywhere in what we call the Centre and Arctic region, which includes Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontar

Official Languages committee  No, it's not the same thing at all. This problem is really specific to Quebec.

Official Languages committee  The figures we have indicate that this isn't really a problem on the west coast. I couldn't tell you exactly why. We have to determine why it's this difficult in the Quebec region.