Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Théberge. It's always a pleasure to welcome you to our committee.
I'll refer to the report that you wrote regarding the lack of communication in both official languages during the pandemic. You made three recommendations. It would take too long to address them one by one. I have only six minutes, and our chair is extremely strict about time.
I think that the third recommendation raises many issues in terms of enforceability. You're asking that the federal government, which has a great deal of expertise in official languages, develop a strategy to encourage and support the different levels of government. This means the provinces or maybe the municipalities.
You received complaints. Whether the communications concern forest fires, a pandemic, health or anything else, we must be able to understand them in our mother tongue. It's the language that we automatically favour.
What do you think of the federal government's encouragement towards the other levels of government?