Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, it is a great pleasure to have you with us today.
I am going to ask you a question about a subject that is dear to your heart.
We both have minority language communities in our ridings. I know that reform of the Official Languages Act is important to you.
The new bill that has been introduced would give you more powers. I am going to read paragraph (k) from the summary of the bill:
Part 1 amends the Official Languages Act to, among other things, (k) provide that the Treasury Board is required to establish policies to give effect to certain parts of that Act, monitor and audit federal institutions for their compliance with policies, directives and regulations relating to the official languages, evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of policies and programs of federal institutions relating to the official languages and provide certain information to the public and to employees of federal institutions;
You are now going to have a lot of powers.
What are you going to do with them?