Thank you very much for the question, Mrs. Fortier. You are my MP.
I would like to add that a new committee was created two years ago. I am referring to Health Canada's Federal Health Portfolio Consultative Committee for Official Language Minority Communities in Canada, or OLMC. This committee existed in the past. It was abolished in 2007, but then re-established two years ago.
This committee brings together people from the CNFS, the SSF and, on the Quebec side, the Community Health and Social Services Network, or CHSSN, McGill University, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Health Canada. It meets twice a year. We have established a work plan and linguistic data is one of the topics. It is the subject of our next meeting in May.
At present, representatives of the SSF, CNFS, Health Canada and CIHI, are working on this file together. The only thing we need to add is the research component, which is really important. We also need to know what kind of data is required. Statistics Canada also has a consultative committee looking into this.