Official Languages committee  For Air Canada, the obligation is direct. The obligations imposed on Jazz are set out in section 10 of the Air Canada Public Participation Act, which was amended in 2000. This section requires that Air Canada see to it that the services provided by its subsidiaries respect offic

Official Languages committee  Can I add—

Official Languages committee  Yes. Ipsos Reid is a professional polling firm, like Léger Marketing and Nanos. Those people would never accept a mandate in which we asked them to ensure the survey showed such and such a thing. It's a reputable independent polling firm.

Official Languages committee  It's not rights, but obligations. Our relationship with Jazz is not based on control. We have a contractual relationship with the company. In our contract, we ask Jazz to provide services in the other official language when the demand is high, to comply with the act. Jazz is res

Official Languages committee  Jazz employees have never had the right to work in the language of their choice.

Official Languages committee  The $2 million covers the language training budget only. It does not cover all the translation costs, including the costs for translating all the pictograms, bilingual advertising, and other things. That's not a complaint. I simply want to make things clear. The $2 million covers

Official Languages committee  No, that's going a bit too far. Our passengers on the flight from Montreal to Vancouver were likely travelling abroad. We'll look into it. That said, a $1,500 settlement following a complaint is quite rare.

Official Languages committee  We apply the principle of privileged seniority.

Official Languages committee  I said that we would check and provide you with an answer.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  We can check.

Official Languages committee  To my knowledge, all official languages complaints are also filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages.

Official Languages committee  That would be surprising. We will check whether there are statistics on the matter.

Official Languages committee  Actually, the 14 litigations are not from the past decade.

Official Languages committee  There has been no litigation over official languages in court. There was one case 20 years ago, not in the last decade. The commissioner initiated proceedings for the service in Toronto and in Halifax. That dispute was settled through mediation.