I would like to welcome you all to the second part of this morning's meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages.
This committee was established about 25 years ago, and this is the first time we are going across the country to meet people directly in the field, talk to people, and give them the opportunity to present us with a brief and explain their challenges. At the same time, we'll be looking at how the 2003 action plan is working. If you have comments on whether you feel it's working or not, we want to hear from you.
We started in Newfoundland and were in New Brunswick yesterday. We're here in Sherbrooke today. We'll be in Toronto tomorrow and in Sudbury on Friday. The trip will continue in January, when we will go to the west part of the country. After that we will write a report to the House of Commons.
I won't take any more of your time on this. I will open it for your comments. I'll give you ten minutes each for your comments, and then we'll go around the table with a five-minute question and answer session.
Mr. Robert Donnely.