Thank you very much.
Thanks as well to the Commissioner, who is with us today.
My first question concerns part VII of the Official Languages Act. Part VII must apply to all federal institutions, and that involves the responsibilities of the Minister of Canadian Heritage under the act.
It is clear from your report that the government must take part VII of the act seriously. In that report, however, you state the following:
… full compliance with language rights and obligations is still a long way off in many respects. The complaints my office has received over the years and the investigations it has conducted attest to the fact that a number of federal institutions do not take their language obligations seriously.
What specific and strict measures do you recommend that the government finally take to remedy the non-compliance with language rights in federal institutions?