It's a bare minimum. We'd hoped these regulations would bring clarity to help federal institutions take positive measures.
Actually, I feel these regulations are codifying loopholes or how to do the bare minimum to comply with the Official Languages Act.
The act is a step towards substantive equality. It should propel us to a new place where we don't have to once again explain to a federal institution that it has linguistic obligations. I frequently have to do that.
We're still facing a wall in some federal institutions. Public servants don't understand their language obligations. The regulations should be the road map for these public servants to understand that they have obligations and that there are tools to implement them. This can open up possibilities for analysis and action, which can be strengthened by consultation activities provided for in the regulations, but they should be improved in order to achieve a more formative action.