Official Languages committee  Other than for policy, we do not.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  That would be me and Ms. Gravitis-Beck has direct responsibility for the file.

Official Languages committee  Of course we followed the Air Canada file. Now, there are a number of issues. If there are complaints around Air Canada, the commissioner does follow-up. For example, this year he is going in for an audit of the Air Canada operations.

Official Languages committee  I mean the official languages commissioner.

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  We are responsible for policy options that will be presented to a minister around transportation issues, including the Air Canada official languages file.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I will ask Mr. Morency to respond, because he has been working at Transport Canada for many years.

Official Languages committee  The government decides. It's not only one minister; cabinet makes decisions. Let me just be very clear. When I said the work is done, we do the work that was asked from us. There may be more work needed. I'm not giving any status of where this is.

Official Languages committee  Just to be clear, though--

Official Languages committee  I thought maybe I was wrong, but Monsieur Godin and Monsieur Bélanger asked two different things. Monsieur Godin wanted to know whether we would be ready to deliver a bill on time if asked to do so by the minister. We said yes. Mr. Bélanger, you asked us for the status. I can'

Official Languages committee  I'm not at liberty to give the timeline of government's internal workings.

Official Languages committee  With all due respect, there's no intention of being contemptuous. We work for and give our advice to our minister. The government makes decisions and—

Official Languages committee  I am not at liberty to talk about when our work is done on all these things. I'm really not trying to be disrespectful, but I'm in a difficult situation when you to ask me which stage of....