Official Languages committee  A report signed by Major-General Semianiw was submitted to the ombudsman yesterday. He can answer the question in more detail.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for that question. The article you cite is taken from the Barrie Examiner, if I'm not mistaken.

Official Languages committee  I spoke with the journalist by telephone for 20 minutes. The article quotes 82 or 85 words spoken by me. I'm not saying I was quoted completely out of context, but I was talking about the terminology that was used by the ombudsman. I visited Borden. I had been there twice and I h

Official Languages committee  Yes. I would say it's now no longer serious in the same way. A number of corrective measures have been taken, and a number of adjustments made. I would say that there are deficiencies and that there are still observations that should be corrected, but—

Official Languages committee  What receptionist?

Official Languages committee  Mr. Côté didn't tell us exactly which persons he had met.

Official Languages committee  I'm going to make a comment. We accept the findings that have been made; we're not saying everything is perfect. Major-General Semianiw mentioned it. We want to improve a number of places. I already have a team that's gone to Saint-Jean, for example, to examine the services. One

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We've done a lot of work. I think we've already moved forward in a number of areas. In other areas we'll see results in the coming months. For instance, to free up francophone instructors, bilingual instructors, we've now contracted courses out of Borde

Official Languages committee  I'm going to answer only the part that concerns me. In my case, and even before I arrived, people had a plan for moving forward. A plan had been developed stating the required resources, the required additional personnel and so on. As you can understand, in our organization, som

Official Languages committee  The first question you asked—I think I can also answer the second—is that a lot of things have been done. Perhaps I didn't run down the entire list, but we've invested additional amounts, nearly $1 million, to translate courses; we've recruited additional bilingual personnel spec

Official Languages committee  In fact, that started in August, September, and we continued. In some cases, it's still continuing. For example, we're trying to recruit an additional bilingual, Francophone dental hygienist. The process is underway. We're having trouble finding medical personnel.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the Standing Committee, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for this opportunity to update you this morning on the situation at the CFB Borden with regard to instruction and services in French. As was stated, I've commanded the Canadian Defence Academy since