It is standard practice for committee members to provide bilingual documents and I think that is a desirable practice. I accept the point that Mr. Godin wants to make this morning, for example in the case of a newspaper article, but I do call on the goodwill of parliamentarians to submit their documents in both official languages, when possible, in order to set an example for our witnesses.
On November 27th, 2007. See this statement in context.