Procedure and House Affairs committee  Honestly, you could count it on the fingers of one hand.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Largely, I would say, it was because it was so difficult. Who knows; it might become easier if the demand becomes greater.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If the demand is greater, then trying to put in place the infrastructure that supports that program becomes easier. There's a greater justification for it. To the extent that it is marginal, you'll have problems identifying interpreters who would be willing to do the work on rela

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those are issues that I think have a practical consequence.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That was one element of it. There may be other factors involved that you could explore with the interpretation service.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There was one item I remember that was an extensive speech. I think it had to do with a bill that the member was proposing to deal with the heavy cost of bringing food up north. I think Mr. Bagnell would have experience about how expensive it can be. There was a bill that was lo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was a good chunk of his speech.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, as I said, the occasions were relatively infrequent. There were some that would have been used for statements, but this one, as I recall, was a substantive intervention in an aboriginal language.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There was prepared text available to us. He provided it to us in English. We were able to make sure that there was a translation in French. At that point, we didn't have to do relay. The moment we had both languages available, when the member was speaking, we would try to coordin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can describe it to you because I have actually bumped into pages in the Debates before 1959, when it was only in English and only in French. If you didn't speak the other language or understand it, it was basically tough luck, because the way section 133 was interpreted, you ca

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and I think it was the policy of the government to demonstrate support for official bilingualism that prompted it to recognize that if we are going to rely on interpreters, they have to be properly trained.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that's a real risk, and that's why I think your conversations with the interpretation service will be so important.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, not personally.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have had experiences, not with indigenous languages, but with foreign languages and working with interpreters who either do the relay, as Mr. Reid mentioned, or who do it simultaneously. It does have an impact on how you conduct meetings when you can't do it simultaneously. I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let me be more candid. We don't want another Phoenix.