Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As the members will no doubt recall, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages has two duties with respect to official languages. These duties involve ensuring there is government-wide coordination of official languages issues, which includes coordination of the roadmap that you are studying and involves about 15 federal institutions.
Moreover, we provide the delivery of two programs that support official language minority communities and linguistic duality, which includes encouraging contact and exchange between the two linguistic communities, namely, anglophones and francophones.
With your indulgence, my two colleagues, who each exercise functions associated with these two topics, will make brief presentations. First, Jean-Pierre Gauthier will say a few words about the road map, complementing the presentation made in October to you. And then Yvan Déry will explain our department's official languages support programs and how they relate to the road map.