I am really very shocked to hear this nonsensical discussion. My colleagues opposite refuse to accept a report being submitted later because some of them have not read it. We are expected to agree to this type of report without being able to have access to the working documents. I think that's a bit ridiculous and I'm not quite sure what is going on.
We are talking about the support of Canadians. As my colleague said, Canadians expect us to be the watchdogs of the official languages. If we are not able to comply with the Official Languages Act ourselves, how can we have the support of Canadians to do our work? We have no credibility if we don't do these types of studies, which go beyond partisanship, as I said earlier.
Mr. Galipeau raised some very good questions just now. Why did the Bloc never stand up? What went wrong? We will never know if we don't look into it together and study the issue. After all, we share some of the same concerns that have been raised here and we have to address them by getting the job done. That is why we are here. Since we finally managed to get through our routine motions, we could start doing the real work. We have a golden opportunity to think about the parliamentary process and find ways to improve it.