Official Languages committee  Not only am I not at liberty to tell you, I'm not sure if I know when the government wishes to proceed. It's a House plan. When they want to introduce a bill, I'm not sure.

Official Languages committee  I said we completed the work that the minister asked us to do on this bill. Should there be any additional work that the minister wishes to do, we shall do that as well.

Official Languages committee  I'm not at liberty to give the timeline of government's internal workings.

Official Languages committee  With all due respect, there's no intention of being contemptuous. We work for and give our advice to our minister. The government makes decisions and—

Official Languages committee  I am not at liberty to talk about when our work is done on all these things. I'm really not trying to be disrespectful, but I'm in a difficult situation when you to ask me which stage of....

Official Languages committee  We have done appropriate work, as the minister has asked. I'm not at liberty to tell you exactly where proposals are. It's up to the government to decide when they're going to act.

Official Languages committee  In the national capital region we have 37% francophones, and the required number or the cutoff number is actually 34%. So we're doing well in Transport Canada. Outside the national capital region and Quebec, the cutoff point is 4.2%. We're at 5.5%. We don't have a representational issue per se for recruitment.

Official Languages committee  No, English as their first language. That's what I mean.

Official Languages committee  What I said is both ministers--the previous minister and our current minister--have repeated their commitment to introducing a bill in the House of Commons that deals with the Air Canada Jazz issue. We appropriately support our minister on that issue. Mr. Chairman, I think by now committee members appreciate that I can tell you where some things are at.

Official Languages committee  We do appropriate work, as the minister has asked. The minister will decide what to do with the work that has been done to date. I am not at liberty to tell you exactly where each piece of legislation or proposal is.

Official Languages committee  In terms of our department, our program management is.... We got an A, and we believe that we're doing quite well, as part of our action plan. With regard to communications and service to the public, we went up one grade. That doesn't mean, by all means, that we're perfect, but we're continuously working on it.

Official Languages committee  The number is for the overall Quebec region. Our overall numbers are low. Our main effort is in Montreal right now. Our main office is in Dorval because of the airport and civil aviation is in the area. We are basically making a huge outreach to schools where anglophone students attend.

Official Languages committee  It did come from them. Our minister came to this committee and committed--

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Okay, whenever the bills are tabled in the House of Commons is a decision--