Welcome to the Standing Committee on Official Languages. Today is Tuesday, November 27, 2012 and we are about to start our 62 nd meeting.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108, we are here to study linguistic duality during the 150th anniversary celebrations of Canadian Confederation in 2017.
We have four groups with us today. We have Mr. Laflamme and Ms. Dupuis from the National Capital Commission; Ms. Schryer and Ms. Goger from the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation; Ms. Friolet-O'Neill, Mr. Légère and Mr. Doucet from the Société nationale de l'Acadie; and finally, Mr. Morrow and Mr. Turcotte, from Canadian Youth for French.
Welcome, everyone.
Before we begin the opening statements from our four witnesses, I want to let committee members know this.
At 12:15, a dozen or so students from the École secondaire publique Gisèle-Lalonde in Ottawa will come into the public gallery to watch our meeting.
They're going to watch our proceedings as part of their political science class. So if you notice a group of students here, they're on a tour of Parliament Hill today to watch Canadian democracy in action.
I just wanted to let witnesses know in case they wondered why we were being invaded by students.
Monsieur Godin.