Good morning, madam and gentlemen.
I am going to draw a parallel between various facts that I have retained. In 2006-2007, the Centre of Excellence for Official Languages had 74 employees. Now it has 20 or so as a result of the idea that the departments are now accountable for the role they must play in protecting and advancing official languages in the machinery of government, the institutions of government. At the same time, you say in your annual report that only a small number of those institutions are conducting audits. Departments and institutions are asked to show more discipline and to conduct follow-up and analyses of performance in promoting the official languages. However, you yourselves have none on the official languages question in your Report on Plan and Priorities.
Isn't a bit of magical thinking involved in this way of believing that the departments will do the work, whereas you yourselves are not doing it and not even including it in your priorities?