Official Languages committee  What programs are you referring to?

Official Languages committee  I believe that ACOA is responsible for those programs.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  Yes, but ACOA has its own minister and deputy minister. I have no responsibility over ACOA.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  That is a question of primary responsibility. Our department deals with linguistic duality and the program we share—

Official Languages committee  Yes, although our presence on the ground, in Newfoundland, is rather modest. Our work there is pretty much done by Measurement Canada, which is responsible for monitoring gas pumps. We also have an office dedicated to bankruptcy cases. Our presence focuses on specific programs and legislation.

Official Languages committee  I have three or four comments I would like to make. One of the things I am monitoring—

Official Languages committee  I will come back to them later. I am sure that someone else will ask me the same questions regarding services to the public. That way we can accomplish two things at once.

Official Languages committee  I think that the survey contained a range of five possible answers. Some people's answers were somewhere in the middle: Those people were not sure whether they agreed or not. You cannot simply subtract 59 from 100 to obtain the 41% that you mentioned.

Official Languages committee  I will look into it.

Official Languages committee  If a position is bilingual, the candidate must clearly be bilingual.

Official Languages committee  It is 97%.

Official Languages committee  That means that of the 2,400... In fact, 3,400 employees are in bilingual positions. Unless I'm mistaken, the vast majority of them meet the criteria. There are perhaps about 100 on language training. Those are the statistics I was given when I looked into the matter.