Official Languages committee  —but at when you are making decisions. You have an application process in place—

Official Languages committee  —and you made the decision based on the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, and there is also the Official Languages Act, which is important.

Official Languages committee  So basically, you also have conditions for issuing a licence—

Official Languages committee  —that are translated in administering some parts of the act. Right?

Official Languages committee  So can you tell me how long your process takes from the application to the issuing of a licence? And what are the main issues they are looking for?

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for appearing in front of the committee. I have a question from your presentation. You stated: The CRTC is an administrative tribunal that regulates and supervises the Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications systems.

Official Languages committee  Are there any plans already in place for the Rouge Park regarding the celebration of 2017, or is it too early to address that? I am just asking this question because my military background is telling me that you need to plan ahead.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Dr. Ostola, for your presentation. As I understand it, Parks Canada is mandated to protect and present Canada's natural and cultural heritage. Parks Canada is very much renowned in the world and is an example of preserving nature and heritage.

Official Languages committee  Is linguistic duality one of the elements of cultural heritage that Parks Canada will celebrate during events marking the 150th anniversary of Confederation, and if it is, how will this be reflected in the new national urban park, Rouge Park, which will be well on its way to being established in 2017?

Official Languages committee  Mr. Lacroix, thank you for joining us at the Standing Committee on Official Languages. French is my fifth foreign language. If you don't mind, I would like to continue in my fourth foreign language. The 150th anniversary of our Confederation is a celebration for all Canadians.

Official Languages committee  The linguistic duality is very important for the future development of our country. I think this multicultural mosaic should be involved at the early stages of our 150th commemoration. I'm just mentioning that. Maybe you know that in Toronto, which is one of the largest cities in Canada, there are 174 spoken languages.

Official Languages committee  During the consultation, was there any discussion on how to integrate recent immigrants to Canada so that they can succeed and benefit from the economic advantages of Canada's linguistic duality?

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Minister, thank you for appearing before the committee. I'm a new Canadian. My mother tongues are Hungarian and Romanian. You spoke about some recent data from Statistics Canada on Canada's linguistic make-up. You mentioned that the data show that, despite an increase in both official languages, new Canadians who had another mother tongue made up a larger part of the general population, larger than ever before.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I also want to thank the witnesses. Thank you very much for appearing before our committee. I have seen the progress we have made as a country in promoting linguistic duality. I also understand that at the federal level we are officially bilingual, and we have a province that is officially bilingual, New Brunswick.