Official Languages committee  Merci, monsieur le président. I want to thank you for the opportunity to address you today on the findings of the annual report of the Commissioner of Official Languages for 2009-10. Thank you for introducing my colleagues. I understand that this is the first time Public Safet

Official Languages committee  We began our effort to build our action plan in early 2010 and we finalized it in June. We discussed it around our management table. We also began implementing certain actions under the plan. With regard to your second question, one of our champions, Mr. Daniel Sansfaçon, has pri

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm convinced we have sufficient capacity in that respect. However, with regard to the way we respond to emergencies, responsibility does not fall to Public Safety Canada alone; that's a role that the provinces, territories and even the municipalities and small town

Official Languages committee  I'd like to make a few comments, Mr. Chairman. First of all, once again, we encourage that in the action plan. That's frankly a challenge. We encourage people to respond to the public's needs in the language of—

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  With the public, absolutely. It must be understood that most of our employees work at headquarters and do not deal directly with the public. Ours is essentially a department that operates in the policy field. We provide advice to ministers; we work with the agencies associated w

Official Languages committee  Roughly.

Official Languages committee  Approximately one-third. I have the figure before me: 34%.

Official Languages committee  No, not bilingual. That's the representation of francophones at the Department of Public Safety.

Official Languages committee  I have the language-of-work figures. There are 331 bilingual supervisory positions.

Official Languages committee  Yes. In addition, 4.8% are currently vacant and 90% meet the linguistic profiles. There is still some work to be done to reach 100%.

Official Languages committee  I don't think so, no. However, I imagine the figure is available and we can—

Official Languages committee  Unilingual francophones?

Official Languages committee  Very few. There are two offices in Quebec.

Official Languages committee  Some people are unilingual francophones, but there are not very many of them.