First, I'd like to welcome you to the Standing Committee on Official Languages. It's a great pleasure for us to travel here to Vancouver. As I said earlier, the Standing Committee on Official Languages has been in existence for 25 years.
It appears that we're celebrating that anniversary with a cross-Canada tour. However, that decision to do a tour is important. It pleased the committee to recommend it to Parliament so that we could go into the regions in the various provinces to meet people in the field, visit locations, see how the action plan is working, and lastly hear recommendations so that we can report on what's working and what isn't.
As you can see, I'm here today with representatives of the government: Sylvie Boucher is parliamentary secretary, Pierre Lemieux is a committee member and Conservative MP; Steven Blaney, who will be joining us, is a Conservative Party member. Brian Murphy is member of the official opposition; Paule Brunelle is from the Bloc québécois. My name is Yvon Godin, an NDP member, and I'm chairing this meeting.
I apologize for the delay. We should have started at 10 o'clock sharp. However, we'll be able to establish a good dialogue. You know how we operate, from what you saw in the first part. I ask each group to make a five-minute presentation, after which we'll move on to questions. Then we'll have a chance to establish a dialogue.
Sometimes people think they don't have a lot of time to make their presentation. You should know, however, that most members are quite familiar with the issues and have specific questions to ask for the purpose of writing a report that we'll be tabling in the Parliament of Canada.
As I said, the five-minute period for each presentation will be followed by a five-minute question period.
We'll begin with Brian Conway, from RésoSanté de la Colombie-Britannique.