Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome. We're happy to have you here this morning.
As a New Brunswicker and coming from a bilingual country, I was happy to hear you note how much work Premier Lord did in bringing bilingualism to the forefront. I know that New Brunswickers appreciate all that he has done.
It's kind of disappointing right now to me as a former teacher to see core French taken out of the kindergarten and grades one and two. From my years in the classroom I know how much they enjoyed it and how much they learned, but that's neither here or there.
In your talk and in your report you mentioned that we should give more powers to the Commissioner of Official Languages; for example, he should be able to request corrective measures. How exactly would the Commissioner of Official Languages be able to impose these corrective measures and what kinds of measures are we talking about?