It is an issue I have raised in previous reports. The question of regulation is one that, as we take a closer look at what has been achieved and what has not been achieved with part VII of the act over the last five years, we'll be considering very carefully. My own view at the outset, after the Official Languages Act was amended, was that it would be useful to give some time to institutions to take their own initiatives. What had struck me in the early gestures that were taken by departments--and this continues to be the case--was that the successes of part VII have often been regional initiatives that were the result of consultation that one could not imagine having flowed from a regulatory framework or from a directive from a deputy minister.
What we have to do, in our analysis of what has been achieved and what has not been achieved, is determine whether a regulatory framework is the best way to proceed or whether a best-practices model would be. I note that the Senate committee has not recommended the adoption of a regulation, but it's clearly something we are going to be looking at.