Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My apologies for raising the point of order earlier. I am very sorry.
I completely understand and respect Mr. Beaulieu's motion. It's important that I move my amendments to the motion, if I may.
Mr. Chair, I know you have the amendments to hand because I have sent them to you already, so they can be distributed to the other committee members. I did not send them to the clerk, but with your permission, we can read them together. It's usually easier when everyone has a copy.
I will just read the amendments. Then, they can be distributed to the honourable members via their P9 accounts.
Nothing in the preamble or paragraph (a) has changed. I will, however, read paragraph (b) of Mr. Beaulieu's motion with my amendments.
b) Evaluate the effectiveness of the government's language policies, as well as the current role of federal and provincial laws, with respect to the objective of protecting and promoting French as well as the impact of these policies on provincial legislative measures to protect and promote French (particularly the Charter of the French Language in Quebec).
Those are the amendments I am proposing to paragraph (b) of Mr. Beaulieu's motion. First, “, as well as the current role of federal and provincial laws,” is being added after “Evaluate the effectiveness of the government's language policies”. Second, in the French version, “celles-ci” is being replaced by “ces politiques”.
I would like to know whether my fellow members wish to debate the amendments.