Thank you so much.
Just to start I want to thank all three witnesses. From what I heard in your comments so far, when it comes to this debate between purely auditing and a more expanded mandate that would review the merits of government policy, all three of you seem to be very much on the side that this role needs to be broadened. One of the pieces brought up by our Conservative colleagues, and potentially a concern from our Liberal colleague as well, was just about whether or not this is justifiable within the framework of our Canadian democracy.
Now, it's the duty of the language commissioner to protect the language rights of Canadians. We already have these kinds of structures and independent officers who are doing more this reviewing of the merits of the government policy work. One of the pieces is around looking backwards. That's the auditing function. The other is looking forward.
I was wondering if we could start with Mr. Lindgren talking a little bit about that function of looking forward.