Official Languages committee  All the heads of all the small government agencies meet.

Official Languages committee  I don't believe that will affect official languages. To absorb the shock, I believe we simply have to find innovative ways of describing things, for example, and make greater use of information technologies in order to absorb those cuts.

Official Languages committee  That sort of goes back to the question that Mr. Bélanger asked. There is one point that I perhaps didn't mention earlier. We will have to resolve that by communicating with the commissioner more. We have regional offices, but they are in fact document warehouses for the federal g

Official Languages committee  We consider official languages at all times in our policy development.

Official Languages committee  Yes. Our objective is obviously to reach 100%, as mentioned earlier. To do that, we're going to put the necessary measures in place, that is to say we're going to have people in the reference department who can function completely in both official languages, from a to z, not simp

Official Languages committee  Yes, I believe that's the case. It's somewhat what I was explaining earlier. We have moved a lot. We merged two reference departments: one department for published material and another for unpublished material, which led us to make a lot of changes and as a result of which that s

Official Languages committee  Yes. In fact, we're starting. The modernization project was put together in 2009 and put in place in February 2010. Its original aim was collaboration. That obviously includes the minority communities. The historical societies and other organizations were gradually approached, be

Official Languages committee  Yes. In fact, all our priorities include the official languages aspect, in everything we do.

Official Languages committee  Do you mean on paper? When you refer to the five strategic choices, you're talking about—

Official Languages committee  Those are the strategic choices that were put forward before the modernization. I know what you're talking about. You're talking about the five strategic choices that had been made and that were replaced as part of the modernization exercise, including the official languages issu

Official Languages committee  Yes, no doubt we can mention it, absolutely.

Official Languages committee  That's entirely possible.

Official Languages committee  We'll do that.

Official Languages committee  Yes. We're changing champions. Ms. Zahra Pourjafar-Ziaei was our champion, but she is leaving. Mr. Melanson will be taking over in a month or two.

Official Languages committee  If I compare our culture to those of other departments, I would say it is nevertheless very bilingual. What has happened in recent years is that the modernization project and the merger caused a lot of staff movements. We're trying to take quite innovative initiatives, such as th