I'm disappointed because I have not gotten a response from my Liberal colleagues. What are we going to do about the FCFA and the QCGN, which are requesting a meeting with the Prime Minister? Does this mean the committee will make a decision without allowing those two groups to meet with the Prime Minister? I didn't get an answer on that. That's disappointing.
I understand that the current government thinks nothing of appointing someone and being subject to a complaint lodged with the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages and to legal recourse concerning the process.
Moreover, I have not heard what your plan is. When do you want to issue this certificate of nomination? Is it today? When? We don't know. I don't know either.
On May 30, the Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta wrote a letter, which says the following:
Subject: Appointment of the next Commissioner of Official Languages
The Board of Directors of the ACFA, the organization that represents Alberta's francophone community, held a meeting. During that meeting, we discussed at length the appointment of the next Commissioner of Official Languages, an appointment on which much has been written over the past few weeks.
Further on, the association explains subsections 49(1) and 56(1) of the Official Languages Act, which respectively cover the appointment and the mission of the Commissioner of Official Languages—in other words, their qualifications—and the letter concludes with the following:
For those reasons, we are sure that the federal government must immediately play a major leadership role in this important file and do what is necessary to guarantee the credibility, neutrality and integrity of the next Commissioner of Official Languages.
Two recommendations are made:
Therefore, the ACFA is asking the federal government to repeat the process for appointing the Commissioner of Official Languages, including the membership of the selection committee.
The ACFA is also reiterating the request of the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada for a meeting to be held as soon as possible, between you an the FCAF, to discuss this issue.
That letter is addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada.
I just want to remind my Liberal colleagues what kind of a situation official language communities are in. We talked earlier about the SANB and we are now talking about the ACFA. Those associations bring up the division within the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne. Many groups are asking for the process to be repeated, and that is why the FCFA and the QCGN are requesting a meeting with the Prime Minister.
So here is my question for the Liberals, the people from across the table who are the government spokespersons. What is your plan? According to what you said, you will reject this motion, whose goal is to better understand Madeleine Meilleur's capabilities for the job. What will happen after that? Do you know? What is your plan?