Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Ms. Meilleur. I am very happy to welcome you. As a Franco-Ontarian, I have seen your career and the important role you have played for the francophonie in Ontario.
I reread some articles that appeared when you resigned a year ago. Let me tell you about some of the comments that were made.
On June 12, 2016, Gilles LeVasseur wrote in Le Droit:
However, we have had an excellent representative of francophone reality in the Government of Ontario and a channel for francophones and francophiles.
In an article that appeared in Le Droit on June 10, 2016, François Pierre Dufault wrote about Madeleine Meilleur's legacy. He wrote:
Today, francophones have a French language services commissioner who has complete political independence and can advocate for their causes in the provincial legislature. They have a public broadcaster, TFO, that is completely independent from its English-language sister station TVO.
I have been on the TFO board. The broadcaster has the wind in its sails, precisely as a result of that decision about its independence.