I would like to clarify what Mr. Gourde said. He used the words “if possible”. I would say that, when a minister appears before the committee, every effort should be made for the meeting to be televised. So every effort will be made to try to find an available room. The idea is the same; the effort will be made.
We would just have to replace the beginning with the words “that whenever a minister or the Commissioner of Official Languages appears before the committee”. That way, we would not need to ask for that every time; it would already be done. We currently have to ask for that. If we do not ask for it, we realize it in the middle of the week, after receiving the notice, and then we have to ask for it.
Mr. Chair, you have always made the necessary efforts, so there's no issue there. We cannot say that you have not made the efforts for those meetings to be televised.
The only difference this motion would make is that efforts would be made automatically to televise the meetings with any ministers or the Commissioner of Official Languages. That's all.