Good morning, and welcome to this 30th meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages. It is my pleasure to welcome you to this meeting, which will be divided into two parts. To begin with, we'll hear from witnesses about the language skills of exempted management staff, pursuant to our orders of the day. Then, we'll discuss motions which may have an impact on our schedule.
First, I'd like to remind committee members that they were supposed to provide a witness list this morning for our post-secondary education study. But don't worry, I'm going to extend the deadline because we still have a lot of other work to do beforehand.
Without further ado, we'll move on to the first part of our meeting, the discussion on the language skills of exempted management staff. Mr. Cashman, from the Public Service Alliance of Canada, and Ms. Ellis, from the Public Service Agency, declined our invitation. We are pleased however to welcome Ms. Barrados, who was not able to appear before us as part of our study on the Official Languages Action Plan. However, her colleagues were in attendance. This morning, she is able to join them.
Madame Barrados, welcome to the committee. I invite you to make a short presentation, and then we will proceed to questions from the members.