I would like to respond, if I may.
As the commissioner points out in his report, there are deficiencies. This is not the first time we realized we had to do something about linguistic minorities. The department has done a great deal to promote the francophonie. We have formed relationships with many official languages communities, including the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne, the Fédération culturelle canadienne-française, the Quebec Community Groups Network and the English-Language Arts Network. We have met and consulted with these communities, and one of the objectives was to attract French-speaking foreign students to Canada to study in French-language institutions outside Quebec. We took all those steps, but the commissioner still noted shortcomings in his report. I will read what he said:
However, DFAIT did not seize the occasion to identify official language communities...and...their needs. This necessary step should be undertaken so that the needs of these communities can be included in the management of the Department's official languages program.
He also criticized the fact that the department did not take the needs of linguistic communities and minorities into account when deciding whether or not to develop or revise certain programs. We accept those findings, and we are now trying to improve our performance based on those observations.