Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Commissioner, I don't have to apologize for remarks I make at meetings of the Standing Committee on Official Languages. It must be kept in mind that you are an officer of Parliament, that you report to us and work for us. Your mandate is to ensure the official languages are respected; you are the watchdog in that area. When the time comes to comment on your reports, in no case will I have to apologize. I have no lessons to learn from my colleague Ms. Glover. She can indulge in spectacles such as the one she gave earlier as much as she wants; that will not prevent me from continuing to discharge my responsibilities as a member of Parliament. If ever I trouble you, if you think I've gone too far at a committee meeting, I don't think you'll hesitate to phone me. We can talk it out at that time. If I don't approve of the content of one of your reports, it's in my interest, and it's also my responsibility, to make comments publicly.
In Recommendation 10, you state the following: The Commissioner recommends that the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police demonstrate, by November 30, 2009, that they have discussed the implications of their official languages obligations with counterparts at the provincial and local levels of government, in view of ensuring that Canada's linguistic duality is adequately taken into consideration in the coordination of health and security responses at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Even if panels and everything else are installed, you have to wonder what kind of services will be offered to people in the streets of Vancouver. You say that these organizations have to report by November 30. I see you're also talking about Air Canada, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority and the Canada Border Services Agency.
Do you intend to come back to the committee to tell us about the reports of those organizations once you've received them so that we can know how they responded to your recommendation?