Yes.
Evidence of meeting #35 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was rcmp.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #35 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was rcmp.
A recording is available from Parliament.
10:10 a.m.
A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
Yes.
10:10 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you, Mr. Gravelle.
If I'm not mistaken, Ms. Guay, we will end our meeting with you.
10:10 a.m.
Bloc
Monique Guay Bloc Rivière-du-Nord, QC
It's kind of you to let me conclude the meeting, Mr. Chair.
I will make two comments. The first deals with the fact that Mr. Shields is not here. We asked him to attend because he was the one responsible for communications. He was also the one responsible for choosing Google as a translation tool. This didn't seem to bother him in the least, despite an absolutely horrible translation. And he still has his job, which concerns us. We would have had a lot of questions to ask him.
The second thing is that I would like you to get back to us with the documentation, if you can't join us again physically. What I want is an action plan and you don't have one. You haven't shown anyone on the committee here this morning that you have a specific, definite and clear action plan that would make anyone say that you really wanted to get things under control. I would like you to give us a written action plan: on such-and-such a date, we did this; on such-and-such a date, we did that; we are hiring people, translators if necessary. You have only one translator for 10,000 people? She's going to burn out, if she hasn't already a bunch of times. It doesn't make sense.
Give us an action plan and show us that you really want to do something. I'm very unhappy today. As I leave this committee meeting, I am not convinced that you are going to do anything new, that the translation will change because you received one complaint and suddenly had a wake-up call. How many complaints will it take?
I would like you to give us a real action plan, that you send it to us here at the committee or come back and see us if necessary so that we can discuss it. This isn't what we did this morning. I find it lacking, and I hope that you really intend to do it. If you really intend to have a plan that will get things done, a plan that pushes ahead 40 years after the Official Languages Act was adopted, I will be the first to be happy and to congratulate you, but I can't do that today. And there you have it.
10:10 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you very much, Ms. Guay.
That concludes our meeting. I wanted to tell you this morning that Nicolas and Lucie are still with us and that Mr. David-Andrés Novoa replaced our clerk.
I would like to thank you for being here this morning. Thank you for the quality of the information that you provided to us. You will obviously be able to follow up with my team with regard to the information to be provided.
Thank you and have a good day.
The meeting is adjourned.
