Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's essentially what I'm going to do. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As was already stated, I am the co-chair of the Board of Examiners of the Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council. That would indicate to you that we have an examination process. Our main job i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the major languages, yes. It could go from Slovenian to English, and then from English to one of the other—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You could transpose that model, if that's what you're suggesting.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Nor am I, by the way.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You would have interpreters in separate booths, soundproofed, listening to the speaker who is speaking in Cree, for example. The person in the English booth would interpret into English, and then the person in the French booth would go from English to French.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be number one.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  French, yes, certainly in Europe, and German as well, in Europe.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It varies. I can give you some total numbers. The B.C. association has 400 members, the Ontario association has 700, and New Brunswick has 250. I would say that between a fifth and a quarter of those would be interpreters of various kinds.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Normally, for the on dossier certification process, we would expect candidates to submit a log of their work over the target number of years: where you did do your—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They'd have to indicate what kinds of assignments they were involved in. For the community interpreter, for example, I gave that long list. There are medical visits and visits by social workers.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right, absolutely.