Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Mr. Ostola. Welcome to our meeting.
The Commissioner of Official Languages conducted an audit from May to October 2011 to determine to what extent Parks Canada was meeting its linguistic obligations to visitors. The final report was released in September 2012. The Office of the Commissioner was not entirely satisfied with the implementation of one of its recommendations regarding consultations with official language minority communities. According to the Commissioner, Parks Canada must “establish a formal mechanism as quickly as possible for regularly consulting official language minority communities at the national, provincial and regional levels to become aware of their specific activity and programming needs”.
Since September 2012, when the report of the Commissioner of Official Languages came out, have you taken any steps to consult official language minority communities more regularly?