Official Languages committee  For four years.

Official Languages committee  From 2004 to 2009.

Official Languages committee  Yes, 2008--that's better.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Correct.

Official Languages committee  Correct.

Official Languages committee  You could. You certainly could file a special report. I did that because the one area, when I did a bit of an historical overview of files, not just the files I dealt with.... Because I really didn't receive that many complaints. But if you were to look historically at the kinds of comments you'd hear if you were doing a presentation, health care was huge—

Official Languages committee  I think there is still a strong responsibility on the federal government. The federation court case did certainly make it clear that the federal government can't just wash its hands of it and say--

Official Languages committee  Exactly. So it's very important to try to work together, and--

Official Languages committee  I think from a funding perspective, the GNWT certainly looks to the federal government for--

Official Languages committee  Right. And I think the court cases have clearly said that. In my opinion, it puts the onus back on the federal government to ensure that the funding is there to make that work. It can't simply be a GNWT responsibility. The Northwest Territories Official Languages Act exists because the federal government allows it to exist.

Official Languages committee  As we've already talked a little bit about this morning, there are issues. There certainly are issues. It's working, I would say, better than it did even 10 years ago, but there is room for improvement. The federal government--

Official Languages committee  A good example is with regard to the equality issue. If somebody walks into a government office, they can demand service in English and French. Someone like Sarah can make sure that service happens. But to do it right there, while that individual is standing in the office, if they're with a clerk who kind of looks dumbfounded and they don't know what to do...that person is not going to walk away satisfied.

Official Languages committee  The act was amended going back four years now. One of the issues that the Legislative Assembly looked at was narrowing the role of the Languages Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. The idea was that the Languages Commissioner would deal with the issue of complaints. They would promote the office and they would promote procedures to file complaints and all of that sort of thing.

Official Languages committee  I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what the question is. When it comes to any federal government department, certainly I think the responsibility for that would be with the federal Official Languages Commissioner. There have been joint meetings--both when I was the Languages Commissioner, and previous commissioners--with the federal commissioner.