According to Ms. Boucher, this was not done; that is her contention. That said, it is up to the Senate and the House of Commons to decide on the nomination. It is not up to our committee to go and see if the candidates obtained the requisite diplomas before they began their career, or if they successfully passed the language test, since that was already done in the course of the process.
What I mean is that there is already a process in place. There were people who examined the 72 candidacies. They did a selection. There were language tests. How could the Standing Committee of Official Languages have the mandate to re-examine the candidate's language skills qualifications, when this was already done in the same process that led to Ms. Meilleur's nomination?
For those reasons, I think we cannot go through the back door to do what we cannot do through the front door. We can't interfere in the process. I will oppose this motion for those same reasons.