Thank you for the question.
As I said to Mr. Godin, I don't think those specific objectives need to be in the regulations. However, each federal agency and department must be required to have and clearly state these objectives. They must be known to the public, and they must be measurable using evidence-based data. Small and large-scale objectives may look different. In a small organization like mine, the Royal Military College of Canada, it could be the number of students who have access to their entire program in the official language of their choice. On a larger scale, we could look at whether there is linguistic parity among officers and soldiers in the Canadian Armed Forces.
However, we cannot expect such objectives to be in the regulations for all 192 departments and agencies. That's not what the regulations are for. The regulations should ensure that each agency and department has done its job and consulted stakeholders in developing these objectives. The regulations must also ensure that these organizations tell us how they are going to gather data to determine whether they've met their objectives and, if they haven't met them, what measures will be taken to correct the situation.