Bonjour.
Good morning.
We are very pleased to be here.
At Vancouver International Airport, we are acutely aware of the Official Languages Act and that it serves as a daily reminder for Canadians and visitors that we are a bilingual country. For this reason, we are very pleased to be working with the Commissioner of Official Languages in response to his report: Raising Our Game for Vancouver 2010: Towards a Canadian Model of Linguistic Duality in International Sport.
Mr. Chairman, honourable senators, my full-time job at the airport authority is to work on coordinating with our business partners and airport authority staff to ensure the active offer of services in both official languages to the travelling public. We anticipate welcoming more than 250,000 additional travellers for the games. We want to make sure that those additional quarter of a million people from all over the world recognize that they have arrived in a Canadian city, and one that is proud to host the games on behalf of all Canadians.