Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  At the end of the year, I think.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Listen, I understand your point. I understand Monsieur Mulcair's point. There have been other persons—not the Official Languages Commissioner—whose appointments were very controversial, and they ended up doing a good job, and people are very happy. We appointed judges who had com

Official Languages committee  I recognize that I will have to be very prudent—very, very prudent—because to be objective is not just to say it but to have the appearance of it also. I will make sure that I am very prudent in terms of making sure that people see that in my new function I'm very impartial and v

Official Languages committee  Yes, but I'll repeat it again: I'm not going to erase 13 years. I'm very proud of what I did and of the work I did. I went through a process. There was an opening and I put my name forward. It was rigorous. I knew I would have a difficult path to become the commissioner, not beca

Official Languages committee  I'm not talking about this process—

Official Languages committee  No, no, I'm not going to comment—

Official Languages committee  I'm not going to comment about this part. I'm just saying—

Official Languages committee  Listen, I cannot say more than what I've just said, that it will be by my comportement. Of course, there are the employees at the commission. There are 160 or more employees. I know that at the end of the day, the buck stops here. I recognize that.

Official Languages committee  But I will always do that with the respect and the integrity and the independence that the position requires.

Official Languages committee  As I said in the beginning, I was the only francophone in cabinet. That was the situation for 12 and a half years. I was the advocate for francophones, and also their commissioner before there was one. When the opposition asked a question, it was music to my ears, as it allowed m

Official Languages committee  Listen, I don't want to answer on the process. I'm not responsible for the process. There was a position that was open. I applied for the position. I went through a rigorous process. I have been selected because of my competence and my feuille de route. I'm excited about workin

Official Languages committee  First, let me say I feel I have some big shoes to fill. The previous commissioner did extraordinary work. I appreciated working with him very much, for instance on the creation of the position of French Language Services Commissioner of Ontario, as well as all of the good advice