Of course. There are two things. All of the details in that document lay out the progress made so far in the area of services, culture, health and so forth. In my opinion, what counts in the short term is using this document to initiate discussions in the various regions of the country. It's one thing to have a document from 2008 that speaks of our aspirations over the next five years, but it's quite another to have a mid-term report to launch the next stage of commitments. Such a study was necessary, but we wanted it to be tabled after the budget. There was a certain sequence; the election campaign, our 2011 budget, and following that, consultations before the 2012 budget, during which we made commitments not only towards communities in a minority situation, but also towards all Canadians, mainly those who needed to know that the Roadmap would be protected in the 2012 budget.
We consulted and made commitments, and then we tabled our 2012 budget. We protected francophone and anglophone communities in a minority situation. Our Roadmap is completely protected in the 2012 budget. On April 5, a few weeks later, we tabled the mid-term report. We have made all these commitments, that is in the 2011 budget, the 2012 budget and in our report.
Now, I am before you today. I mentioned our consultations that will take place over the next few months. We will come back and you will have undertaken a parallel study of your own over the course of the summer. We will have both studies. We will continue to discuss all of it and it will all be part of our commitments in the 2013 budget. There is a process.
Let's see what we are doing overall. We encourage the committee to study our Roadmap and, once all this documentation is produced, we are committed to pursuing the discussion. I believe that is the most responsible approach for a government that wishes to have a responsible official languages policy for all regions in the country.