Good afternoon, everyone. Congratulations on your work.
I would just like to come back to a point on the issue of the Quebec City marine rescue sub-centre. You shared your concerns as an officer of Parliament. The Auditor General shared his concerns, as well. So, there are two independent officers of Parliament who have shared their concerns about the capacity to provide adequate bilingual services, should the rescue sub-centre be moved. I think we can say that there might be a problem here. Now back to the matter at hand.
I greatly enjoyed your presentation, Mr. Fraser. I see that you have worked hard and will continue to do so. This year, you are going to publish the results of an audit on transfers to the provinces, as well as follow-up on audits of National Defence, Service Canada and the Halifax Port Authority; we will have some nice files to study here. You are also conducting audits on management models, on the role of the Treasury Board Secretariat, on Air Canada and on Industry Canada. And it doesn't stop there. In fact, three other studies are on their way: one on the magistrature, one on public service training and one on appointments made by the Governor General. I think we can draw inspiration from these topics in establishing our agenda for the year.
Point 2.1 in your report on plans and priorities reads as follows: “Determine the trends of federal budget restraint measures and their impact on upholding language rights and advancing linguistic duality.” We know that we are in a period of cutbacks. We have heard from Minister Moore. According to the numbers, at Canadian Heritage, there will be a decrease in investments in developing official language communities and in promoting official languages.
How will you follow up on all of that? Are you going to write a report on the impact of cutbacks on the linguistic obligations of the government or of the various departments? Will you provide us with a report?