I'd like to begin by wishing you all a good morning. As you know, the Standing Committee on Official Languages is currently on a cross-country tour. This is the first tour the committee has done in 25 years, since it was created. Last year, or two years ago, we decided to do this cross-country trip to meet people on the ground. This did not happen because of the election. We therefore started over. The election can come quickly to Ottawa and that is why we decided to get off to an early start this time around.
It is a great pleasure for this parliamentary committee to meet with you and to listen to you. Sylvie Boucher, Pierre Lemieux and Daniel Petit represent the Conservative government. To my left, is Jean-Claude D'Amours, who represents the official opposition, and Ms. Viviane Barbot, who represents the Bloc Québécois. My name is Yvon Godin and I represent the NDP. Normally I would be sitting beside Ms. Barbot. We have other people with us as well, the research staff, the clerks and the interpreters.
The committee gave itself the mandate to meet with people in their own regions, for the purposes of discussing the $700 million action plan for minorities and assessing the current situation. At the same time, we would also like to learn about the health network situation.
We therefore welcome you. There will be three groups. Each group will have eight minutes. You were perhaps told that this would be three minutes, but I think that with eight minutes we will have had time to hear what you have to say. We will then move on to questions. Each questioner will have five minutes. We'll try to do a few rounds.
Who will begin?
Ms. Rauzon-Wright.