It's important to remember there was no Office of the French Language Services Commissioner when the French Language Services Act was first passed in 1986. That office was created in 2007, and it was added because the government realized it needed additional transparency.
You've probably heard it said many times that an act has little effect if it has no teeth. So it's necessary for an act such as this one, which is designed to protect the minority, to provide for a remedy. That's the role of the Office of the French Language Services Commissioner; that's what it does. It receives complaints, and it investigates them, but it also defends and promotes the francophone community.
Without that office, and particularly without its independence—which is currently at stake—we have no remedy.
What will Ontario's francophone community do if it no longer has an organization to turn to when a problem arises and there's a shortage of services in French?