Official Languages committee  I have been posted abroad myself. I have been in the department for many years now. I have held good practices forums with the young and not-so-young employees of the department. In my opinion, our missions and our heads of mission are highly aware of their responsibility to offe

Official Languages committee  The people in our missions abroad are very much aware that they are responsible for promoting the interests and values of Canada as a whole and Canada's linguistic groups, particularly the official language groups. Every day, as they perform their duties, they are called upon to

Official Languages committee  Okay. The second area is the francophonie. As you know, further to the Francophonie Summit in Montreux, we are currently supporting the Quebec government as far as this international French-language forum is concerned. The third key area with a high level of cooperation is expor

Official Languages committee  I believe Mr. Rosenberg mentioned in his presentation our network of official languages coordinators. Every quarter, representatives from our missions, our 12 regional offices and every division at headquarters meet to take stock of where official languages stand. And each year,

Official Languages committee  Since 1998, but in the role of official languages champion since September 2008.

Official Languages committee  That question is for me?

Official Languages committee  Quite frankly, we were not expecting the official languages commissioner to give us that kind of rating.

Official Languages committee  No, I would not go that far, but we have an excellent working relationship with the commissioner's office. As Mr. Rosenberg mentioned in his report, the most important thing was program management. They noted a number of really good practices, especially the fact that we had an a

Official Languages committee  I said that 88% of positions were bilingual.

Official Languages committee  The plan covered the period from 2008 to 2010.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for that question, Mrs. Zarac. Further to the Commissioner's comments, we met with the staff in the Commissioner's office to get a clear idea of our shortcomings in each of the areas mentioned. Subsequently, we drew up a list of our strengths, and shortcomings, in eac

Official Languages committee  Mr. Rosenberg said it would be brought before the executive council, the department's most senior decision-making authority, in May. After that, we will be able to provide a copy to the members of the committee.