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Official Languages committee This is a three-year action plan.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee I believe this is the first—
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee This action plan includes the current year. So we've already made some progress.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee I would like to do everything immediately, but we have to follow the steps that will enable us to implement a fair process.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee No, Mr. Chairman. We can see on page 3 that, for the second year of our plan, 2011-2012, we plan to set up a complaint process. However, 2011-2012 starts in three weeks. So we're going to try to make some progress.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee That's good advice.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee First of all, we have to offer the necessary training so that we can—
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee Thank you. I had a discussion with the Commissioner of Official Languages on this very subject recently, in October. It is indeed a challenge that is facing not only Public Safety but all institutions today. Of course, it comes from a number of sources. There's a heavy reliance
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee Sometimes you can afford the opportunity to translate material; sometimes you can't. In the world of national security, we are responding to information we get on a daily basis and we have to take the information in the form it arrives.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee Public Safety Canada is not one of the designated departments. In spite of that, we are members of the committee. We were the ones who suggested that. Mr. Sansfaçon is involved in that. We are obviously interested in it. As for accountability, as deputy minister, I'm responsible
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee Their abilities or...?
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee We have a profile of everybody. Certainly, if somebody is not meeting their competencies or not fulfilling them, we have measures to correct that. We monitor that.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee Yes, we started work and we approved it in June.
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker
Official Languages committee Not on—
December 7th, 2010Committee meeting
William Victor Baker