I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 114 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages. I will of course review the guidelines for preventing acoustic incidents. Please place your earpiece on the table when you speak. There is a card on the table indicating steps to be taken to prevent acoustic incidents that may injure our interpreters, whom we really need. We mustn't make the situation worse, so please follow the guidelines.
A reminder, before I introduce the witnesses, that, for technical reasons, I adjourned the last meeting as though I was suspending it. We were already voting on Mr. Godin's motion, which our clerk has sent you once again for efficiency's sake. I know you remember because that was this past Tuesday. At any event, you have before you the motion that Mr. Godin tabled on Tuesday and that we will be putting to a vote. We will do that by a public show of hands, if there are no objections.
(Motion negatived: nays 6; yeas 5 [See Minutes of Proceedings]).