Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to you, Mr. Fraser, and to your team. Thank you for being here today to answer our questions.
Although our committee has to approve your office's expenditures, it is unfortunate that we cannot recommend a budget increase. So we can only approve what has already been allotted; however, it is important for us to know whether that adequately meets your needs. Before addressing that specific issue, I would like to talk about your presentation on the 2010-2011 main estimates.
I particularly appreciated when you said that there were two official language communities in our country and that they had an important role to play. Essentially, your role is to ensure that public policy better reflect Canada's linguistic duality. As a francophone and Quebecker, I care deeply about what you said. We know that the government is currently looking to reform the representation within the House.
I wanted to know—because that was not something you dealt with in your opening remarks—whether you had considered studying the issue this year, so that both communities would be represented within the context of that reform.