Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome, visitors. It's great to have you here today, and we thank you for your time.
It is certainly heartwarming to hear about the work and cooperation that is being done among groups to promote francophone communities across our country. As was mentioned, even though our government certainly promotes this issue and stands behind it 110%, the government alone cannot do it. It needs organizations, communities, and other governments all working together.
Immigration certainly is a very important tool in the development of official language minority communities. In that respect, in 2003, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages issued a report entitled “Immigration as a Development Tool in Official Language Minority Communities”. In this report, the committee recommended that DFAIT take appropriate steps to ensure that our missions abroad promote Canada's linguistic duality and the existence of anglophone and francophone communities throughout the country.
Has this recommendation been implemented, and if so, what are the steps that enable DFAIT to make OLMCs known abroad?