Listening to my colleagues around this table talk about the extent of the problems concerning official languages, whether it be in industry or in the universities, I see once again that the federal public service is the poor cousin of Canadian society. Not only does no one pay any attention to it, but also, when thoughts or projects are developed to renew the pan-Canadian official languages program or bilingualism in the country, the people who, as you say, are in the field, offering services to Canadians and responsible for developing the programs are completely disregarded. It's really a sad and, in fact, quite annoying situation.
On February 7th, 2008. See this statement in context.