Thank you, Mr. Chair.
All House of Commons committees would like to have their proceedings televised. We do not want to work in the dark, we want all Canadians to see what Parliament is doing. As we know, it is not possible to televise committees in every meeting room. In the past, I remember that 90% of one committee's meetings were televised—and that was the Standing Committee on Official Languages. We even had to make an exception to the rule for our meetings not to be televised.
Given the importance of the Action Plan for Official Languages, the importance accorded by the government to a consultant hired to study the action plan, who's now agreed to come to the meeting next Tuesday, April 8, I think it is important that this meeting be televised. It would make it possible for us to have a genuine public debate and would allow people to follow our proceedings. For this reason, Mr. Chair, I am pleased to move this motion that our meeting be televised.