Yes. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will start.
On behalf of Air Canada, I thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee today.
We are pleased to be here today and to have the opportunity to speak to the committee on behalf of Air Canada.
We are here today to present to you the concrete measures that were taken by Air Canada in recent months to improve the delivery of bilingual services across its global network, as well as to reaffirm our commitment to Canadian bilingualism and to share our pride in this regard.
Today, I am joined by colleagues who all have an important role to play in Air Canada’s implementation of its language policy.
Since our last appearance before the committee, we have met with a number of stakeholders, elected officials, members of francophone communities from across the country, representatives of the government and, of course, our employees, people who are all working to promote bilingualism.
We have also increased our efforts to improve the delivery of services.
We have prepared a short presentation today to give you an overview of our training programs, of our language tools and the efforts we are making to promote official languages at Air Canada.
I now give the floor to Mrs. Arielle Meloul-Wechsler, Vice President, Human Resources and Labour Relations, who, as a member of Air Canada’s senior management, is in charge of our official languages policy.