I'm going to start with the point concerning the Office of the Commissioner. We're talking about a progressive role. We don't want to make a court case of everything. We have a commissioner, and when he decides that there has been a breach of obligations, we want him to impose corrective measures and for there to be penalties if they are not complied with. However, we want the commissioner to retain his role as ombudsman and to continue conducting investigations and preparing reports and studies. In our view, that is still an essential role.
Furthermore, once he has decided, conducted his investigation and said that the act has been contravened, that often falls on deaf ears. We therefore want to give the commissioner this enhanced power. We want to explore this option.
With regard to consultations, there are a lot fewer of them. In fact, there aren't any more. Some things were being done, but there have been a lot fewer of them for a long time now. Let's simply look at the road map. Although it's excellent, it doesn't contain a section on consultation or accountability for results. The institutions must be accountable and say what the results are. They'll measure what they've done, but they won't measure the impact or results.
When we say that we want to be consulted and that we want what we say to be taken into account, that doesn't mean that you have to do everything we say. That nevertheless does mean that you shouldn't listen to us simply for the sake of listening to us. There has to be accountability on that score.
With respect to the act, as I said, it's difficult. When it's compartmentalized in this way, it's hard for employees to offer me service in French if they don't have tools in French. It's hard to say that you're going to promote the vitality of my community if you can't offer me service in French.
We think there is a very high degree of interdependence among the various parts of the act. When the regulations were made, the components of the act were really separated. We're talking about universal regulations that would take all these aspects, the interdependence of the various parts of the act, into account.