Official Languages committee  Several members of my team are accomplished researchers with a lot of experience. But I repeat that the committee is engaged in a number of mechanisms. It's the sum total that we are trying to get out of it. As I said previously, each mechanism has its strengths and its weaknesse

Official Languages committee  Basically, we have to remember that, when we looked at the big picture, we saw that the committee was holding its hearings, that people were getting ready to present reports and, in some cases, to table documents in the name of their communities. We waited to see how that work wa

Official Languages committee  No. That is why we told them about it. Honestly, we looked at the way in which this study that the committee is doing evolved in the first weeks, in order to get a kind of idea of what it would look like, what the nature of the testimony would be and which witnesses would be invi

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Let me finish my thought. I told them about it after we had formed an opinion about the way in which the committee was going to conduct its study. As I said just now, with the benefit of that hindsight, around the time of the holidays, we communicated with the associations to te

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I am waiting for the evaluation reports to see that. Having said that, we have some anecdotal information, basically success stories. We know there are a lot of encouraging comments. You have also heard some in this committee. So it is looking very promising at the moment.

Official Languages committee  My colleague Mr. Déry talked a little about that earlier. Every department integrates official language activities with overall operations. So, depending on circumstances, departments and their mandates, it can be difficult to identify what they are doing specifically in terms of

Official Languages committee  We have actually noted the same comments. Difficulties of a practical nature don't make our task any easier. In a number of cases, the funding from the Roadmap basically gets added on to existing funds. So that simply increases the amounts that are available for investment. From

Official Languages committee  Actually, there are a number of ways of doing it. Combining all of those ways is what is going to help us be more and more comfortable. As was mentioned earlier, we have summative evaluations. There will also be a horizontal evaluation to help us group everything that was accompl

Official Languages committee  Objectives are identified for each of the 32 programs in the Roadmap. Initially, we specify which indicators will enable us to measure the extent to which each objective was achieved. That is the slightly more technical part. It comes with the summative evaluations. When we do th

Official Languages committee  Only one small one has been completed. The others are behind schedule. The last time I checked, I saw that we were talking about March, May and June. So we'll have the…

Official Languages committee  I find it a little unfortunate, but… There are delays.

Official Languages committee  As part of the evaluation?