As an officer of Parliament, I keep a certain distance between the government and myself regarding the development of this kind of a study. So I cannot talk to you about it in detail.
As for the governance issue, nine years ago, the government placed on the Treasury Board the responsibility of ensuring that federal institutions and departments are respecting official languages. In fact, the idea was to limit the number of activities centralized in the Privy Council. So there was a tendency to assign those responsibilities to the departments. I was somewhat concerned, as I worried that the importance given to the official languages issue would be reduced.
At the same time, the committee of deputy ministers on official languages, where members could not be replaced, was superseded by a committee of assistant deputy ministers, whose members can be replaced.
So I was concerned about those two changes.
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