Official Languages committee  As for the Speech from the Throne, I'd like to point out that this is a completely different file. As for my group, nobody's ever refused to meet with us. We've always been able to meet with people, but sometimes it can take an awful lot of time. They might process us a little.

Official Languages committee  For committee work, we're here and we're happy to be here. I think what is important is the notion of outreach. For the English-speaking community, we are in Montreal. The issue is on our access and our potential to come to Ottawa regularly. This is all to do with fact that we

Official Languages committee  I know. It's employment.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I think employment would be a key issue.

Official Languages committee  For us, as well, it's in May. The meetings are two days apart.

Official Languages committee  There was a concern that there was a need to demonstrate interdepartmental evaluations to tell the citizens of Canada, not just the official language minority communities, how the money was spent and what the indicators were. There was coordination and you could see it. I don't

Official Languages committee  If there is one significant difference between the old HR management accountability framework that was under the action plan and the new HR MAF--or however we want to categorize it--it's that the coordination aspect is visibly, demonstrably absent. You can't find it, you can't se

Official Languages committee  A lack of focus.

Official Languages committee  The major part of consultation we were getting over the past, I would say, six months—and certainly our colleagues in our sister organization would say it too—is that many departments are talking about their three- to four-year plans going forward, in our case, rather than a lot

Official Languages committee  The specific example that we brought up in this presentation today is around immigration. In Quebec, we don't want to talk about immigration. We think we need to talk about diversity, because Quebec's structure in that jurisdiction is particular and supports a very important aspe

Official Languages committee  The road map and its successor were the fruit of many consultations. At least, the action plan took enormous consultation in the beginning of 2000-2001. We acknowledge in the English-speaking community that we were not quite ready for all of the initiatives being considered by t

Official Languages committee  I can tell you that the president of our organization was in Florida when there was an important meeting a couple of weeks ago administratively, and I have to congratulate the people who took this to heart and put together some standards. So I have a lot of faith that something w

Official Languages committee  We think everybody did their job by taking this seriously, and I have to say that we're hopeful.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Nadeau, may I add something?