Mr. Chair, if the government wants to lead by example, it has to put its money where its mouth is and make translation services available to all departments free of charge. Doing so would show the government's support for translation services. That doesn't mean that the translation bureau's staff would work for free. It would mean that the government would pay for those services out of its general budget. Departments wouldn't be billed for the services.
Keep in mind that departments can have very tight budgets, so they have to make decisions. Unfortunately, translation is usually what gets cut, and so translation and interpretation into French aren't available.
That's an important consideration.
I'd like to propose an amendment. I don't have it prepared. Basically, the amendment would repeat what was in the previous amendment, except for proposed paragraph (c).
I don't know how it should be numbered, so I will leave that to the legislative clerks.