I was in the process of explaining what you could do from your end. One thing that the committee can do is to continue drafting well-written reports analyzing the situation. A well-structured analysis can help people who want to understand how the Official Languages Act is being applied.
Secondly, there is vigilance. You must be vigilant, because that is your role. I will give you just one example. If ever there was an important problem, it certainly is the scarcity of human resources in the health sector. We are fighting—and this is our daily hell—to find personnel, to try to sign agreements, etc. The government wants to take action in this area, we have programs, and an initiative is underway to recruit health personnel outside of Canada.
If this program description includes a condition specifying that, in recruiting personnel, the requirements of the various communities need to be taken into account, what do we do? We will also recruit francophones. That will make our job with the territorial government much easier because we will be able to say that a portion of this $300,000 must be used to recruit francophone staff.
You could compare this to a lever. The fact that this is an essential issue must be acknowledged. How else can we ensure that francophones are also going to benefit from part of these initiatives? We need a doctor, a nurse and a social worker to form a team. That isn't very much, is it, but we don't have it. We have to go out and get it.
You need to be vigilant with respect to health care initiatives. It would help us a great deal if we had minimum conditions to strengthen health care initiatives by ensuring that the linguistic aspect was given consideration. This is not the only item, but it is important.