With regard to OpenMedia, we received their brief, and like a lot of others that we have received, it is in translation. As I explained to Mr. Hatfield earlier today, we are dealing with a large number of documents that have been submitted. Unfortunately, we are not the only committee drawing on translation resources. This has caused longer than expected or anticipated delays, which—though unfortunate—is not something that is in the purview of the committee to deal with at this time.
With regard to documents submitted in French and English, this is the rule of the committee, established by the committee. Any document that doesn't come from an MP's office, from a department or from the House of Commons and that is submitted in both official languages has to be sent to the Translation Bureau for linguistic review. Then we fall back into the same issue: The translation bureau has an enormous amount of work to do, which is causing longer than anticipated delays.
Thank you.