Mr. Chong, regardless of how important we think our work here is, I feel that compliance with the Official Languages Act, as well as its longevity and viability, rely on the support of Canadians, just like any legislation does.
If we try to find problems where there are none, if we exaggerate the flaws in our legislation, if we do irrelevant work and if we lose the support of people in British Columbia, New Brunswick or anywhere else in Canada, we are going to find ourselves in a situation where we will no longer have the support that is so vital to meeting our objective of promoting the use of the official languages.
I heard about the circumstances in which those documents were submitted. I don't think this is the right place for a study like that. In my view, that is likely to be ridiculed by people who think that what we do is neither relevant nor useful for Canadians.
That is why I am not in favour of starting a study like that.