Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would just like to make the Committee aware that my colleague, Mr. Coderre, is here today and will be replacing me later, as the Commissioner of Official Languages is tabling his fourth report this morning at 10 a.m., if memory serves me. So, I will have to leave, and I would like to thank my colleague for being here.
Minister, your presentation this morning is basically a list. You mentioned a series of programs. It seems to me that what is missing… Indeed, our Committee will be looking at this, because it is our intention—I hope—to table an interim report on the Roadmap, since we are now at the halfway point. There are gaps. Last year, the Commissioner spoke of them. According to the media, he mentions them again in his report this year. So, we'll see.
I would like to mention two things. I am not asking for an answer. We will get the answers in greater detail in the government's response to our report. In the final year of the Action Plan, the amount was some $230 million. If I take that last year of the report and transpose it over five years of the Roadmap, I note that there is no increase. So, that effectively means that there has been an erosion in funding for the communities, if we only consider inflation and the addition of some programs that you have praised.
I will let you comment, but I want to mention, Minister, that there seems to be a problem with governance. You are the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. Since you became minister, have you struck an ad hoc Cabinet committee on official languages?