Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for being with us this morning. I'm going to put my questions specifically to two persons, Mr. Dumais and Mr. Da Pont.
Mr. Dumais, with all due respect, the next time you submit documents to the Standing Committee on Official Languages, you should make sure they are presentable. The problem is not simply that they are incomprehensible; they are full of mistakes. With a level of language of this kind, a school student would fail grade 6. We're talking about the federal government, and you are here in the Standing Committee on Official Languages. This document that you have submitted to us is shameful. I hope that, next time, the message will finally get through. I may not be good in French, but this document is very poor.
It was said that the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre met the needs. They're dealing with francophones, but, in the west, I'm not convinced the percentage of francophones and unilingual francophones is that high.
Mr. Da Pont, you said that it met the needs.
Mr. Dumais, you say that it meets the needs of the office, but tell me, you who are a francophone, without going into details, whether you managed to make some sense of this exchange. Despite all the good will that your officer was able to show, were you able to understand the slightest comment that could help that person, who was relatively calm, despite the extremely difficult situation? Did you understand anything?