Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to welcome all of you here this morning. It's nice to have you back with us to explain some of your ideas and to hear what you have to say.
As you all know, as part of our study this committee has been working on and has been looking quite extensively at the road map during our study for the linguistic duality. In your report, you highlighted it as a key instrument in the government's work towards linguistic duality, and we certainly have found that during our study as we went along.
The road map differs quite greatly from the action plan, and not least in its funding. The level of funding put in place was $1.1 billion. Now, that's $1.1 billion over five years. We'll be seeing work done in cultural components. More money has been put into the music showcases, which were non-existent under the prior program, as well as the translation program.
The prior action plan, we learned, only covered eight departments, whereas this new plan now covers 15 departments, which is a great addition to it.
While recognizing—and we all know it—that there's always room for improvement, would you say that the road map improved upon the action plan? And in what specific areas do you see the improvement?