Mr. Chair, I would like to emphasize that, at his appearance last December, the minister responsible for official languages said that it was up to each department to make sure that the Official Languages Act is enforced and that it was not his job to make his cabinet colleagues comply with the Official Languages Act.
That is why we have introduced a motion. I would like to read it.That the Committee invite each of the ministers responsible for the institutions covered by the Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008–2013: Acting for the Future, and each of the ministers responsible for National Defence and the Canadian Forces, Veterans Affairs Canada, Environment Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, to attend a two-hour televised public hearing, respectively, to discuss their official languages obligations by April 30, 2013.
The motion has been submitted to the clerk's office. We can debate it next week.