Mr. Chair, I would like to add a few observations, if I may.
For the midterm review, I think it's important to clarify the goals of the exercise we are conducting. The purpose of the exercise is to provide an account of what has been accomplished. It is a management step for reviewing the implementation and how we have delivered the Roadmap. It's a verification or review step that is focused more on the management of the Roadmap than on the creation of a document that would recommend public policy themes, for example.
The information that we use is already part of the public domain through the annual reports of Canadian Heritage. If you take a look at the departmental reports on performance that were published in late spring, unless I'm mistaken, you will find appendix 5. It isn't in the paper version, but is available online.
This appendix lists the 32 initiatives I just spoke about. It provides very specific details about the outlays that have been made during the year compared with the expected outlays. There is also space for comments at the end of the document and notes from the various departments to explain what happened over the year. So this is a yearly process, and part of our process is more a way of taking stock at the midterm based on this information.
We consulted the official language minority communities fairly thoroughly in the summer and fall. To ensure that we fully understood what they were telling us, my team is drafting a report right now that will summarize what we collected, both through a brief survey this summer and discussion groups this fall. We will send it to them to ensure that it truly reflects what they told us.
And, as my assistant deputy minister said, our discussions are ongoing with these communities. I can say that we trust that we have fully understood the messages.