I understand that the minister wants to blame the provincial governments and the Conservatives, but the increase in complaints [Technical difficulty—Editor] was really about federal institutions. There was a 25% increase in just one year. In the Commissioner of Official Languages' report last year, the commissioner's findings were really alarming. Among other things, the commissioner said this:
federal institutions are not complying with the Official Languages Act;
As we have seen over the past year, the Privy Council Office still sends documents to the Standing Committee on Health in English only. Senior officials have been forced to attend meetings that were conducted only in English, without simultaneous interpretation. There were also working documents that were not translated.
What can you do, Minister, to change that? These problems never seem to get resolved.