Mr. Chairman, I just want to come back to the issue of inviting someone to appear before the committee, but not doing so in that person's mother tongue. I simply want to point out that we did not know what that person's mother tongue was. It was an honest mistake. We don't know everyone. So if we are to avoid this type of thing from happening in the future, I would simply ask that we make sure—and if this is done anyhow, so much the better, we will only reaffirm the way things are done in this motion—that we not offend the person whom we are contacting, and that to do so we contact the person in their official language, that is, in English or French. This applies to any correspondence by mail, any invitations or any type of correspondence coming from the Standing Committee on Official Languages of the Canadian Parliament.
It is therefore in this spirit and in order to be practical that the Standing Committee on Official Languages will show all citizens that it is aware of this matter. In future, when we are not sure what the mother tongue is of the persons we are trying to contact, we will send the information in both official languages, simply to avoid any unpleasant situations. So in that spirit I am asking that we put the motion.