In fact, the brief presented by the FCFA in 2009 was in the context of the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the Official Languages Act. From 2009 until the elections last fall, we have repeatedly asked the government to appoint an authority responsible for enforcing the act.
Currently, as Ms. Lanthier said, Canadian Heritage has an important role to play, as do Justice Canada and Treasury Board. Those are the three federal institutions responsible for the enforcement of the Official Languages Act. Each one of them has a specific role to play involving different parts of the act.
However, none of these ministers, pursuant to their respective mandates, have the authority to tell their colleagues what they must do in their department, or to ask them to ensure that the legislation is applied. That is the authority we are asking for, or which we had been asking for up until the fall. The reply we got was that no such authority existed.