You can ask, but I can honestly tell you that our answer will be our next roadmap. I sincerely appreciate the work that your committee did, in a non-partisan way. We will certainly have a response. But our real response is our next roadmap. That's our government's policy. That's our approach. The fact that, as part of these consultations, the Minister of Official Languages visited every region of the country was, as I said, unprecedented.
Keep in mind, too, that the 2008-2013 roadmap was drafted after Ms. Verner, the former Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, asked Bernard Lord to hold consultations. He held five. They were excellent. Some very good ideas came out of them. He organized five round tables across the country and wrote a report. The roadmap was established in the wake of that report. My commitment was the 22 round tables that were held. The roadmap will be based on those consultations, on what this committee has done and on the ideas of people on the Hill.
I also met with Marie-France Kenny last week, in a meeting in my office, here on the Hill. Her ideas are great and she is very committed. She defends her points of view most energetically. We agree on the vast majority of the topics and needs concerning in the next roadmap. I am sure that she'll be quite happy with the policies in our next roadmap.