So we could say, minister, that your department is the watchdog of all those departments and that it ensures that they implement the act. They have responsibilities, but you are the head of all that, and that is your responsibility.
Mr. Minister, many were troubled by a number of aspects of your 2011 report that revealed wide gaps in both the consistency and quality of the structure in place to guarantee respect for the institution of bilingualism in the contemporary public service. One example is language of work.
The Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer found that bilingual meetings were public-service-wide problems, and amazingly, less than half of our federal institution holds meetings where employees can participate in the official language of their choice. What do you answer to that? What do you intend to do to correct it—or to tell your counterparts or the other ministers to do their job after 40 years of the law of the official languages?