In fact, one of the aspects that we will be taking a close look at is the whole issue of the traveling public and third parties and companies that are tenants in airports. When we audited the Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, one of the things we learned is that the airport authorities themselves have not grasped their responsibilities under the Official Languages Act. This is a matter that I raised with the Treasury Board, in that the Treasury Board is often slow to communicate with airports once they have exceeded the threshold of 1 million passengers per year, that is to say when an airport in Canada receives 1 million passengers per year. Once that happens, these airports have linguistic obligations. However, they have to understand that these obligations have to be communicated. Otherwise, it is understandable that the people in an airport such as the Saskatoon airport, the John G. Diefenbaker International Airport in Saskatoon, are having problems. They must understand that they now have linguistic obligations. The authorities also have to tell passengers what their linguistic rights are.
On November 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.