First off, allow me to welcome you all. But perhaps I should allow you to welcome us here.
The Standing Committee on Official Languages is very pleased to travel across Canada. This allows to see the impact that the 2003 Action Plan on official languages has had on official language minority communities, in terms of health care, immigration and other sectors. We now invite you to make your presentations, and then we will move on to questions.
My name is Yvon Godin. I am a member of Parliament from the northeastern part of New Brunswick, in the Acadian Peninsula. On my right are members representing the government. We have with us Sylvie Boucher, the parliamentary secretary for official languages, Pierre Lemieux and Steven Blaney.
On my left are Raymond Simard and Brian Murphy, from the official opposition, as well as Paule Brunelle, from the Bloc Québécois.
You will each have five minutes to make your presentation. That may not seem like a very long time, but once we begin our discussions, you will find that what members are interested in is asking you questions to help us draft a report. We are quite aware of the various situations.
In order to keep to our schedule, I will give you a signal after four minutes indicating that you have one minute left to wrap up your presentations. Members will then have five minutes each to ask their questions.
We will begin with Denis Vincent, President of the Réseau santé albertain.