Official Languages committee  No, that will not necessarily be the case. The current commissioner, whose mandate derives from the French Language Services Act, decided to exercise a fairly broad mandate in terms of his responsibilities. He does a lot of promotion work. I repeat that the existing powers will

Official Languages committee  No, that is not what I just said. I said the exact opposite. I just talked about the possibility of promotion based on the preamble to the French Language Services Act. It will be up to the commissioner to decide how to exercise his mandate. That possibility remains, but it will

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Official Languages committee  The French Language Services Commissioner will fulfill his duties and responsibilities through the ombudsman's office, but we are still talking about an independent status. The ombudsman, along with the appointed commissioner, will have the same obligations to investigate complai

Official Languages committee  The previous government would produce mandate letters, which were public. We cannot communicate anything at this time. As my colleague said, priorities are stated, but it is not necessarily in—

Official Languages committee  As public servants, we cannot provide that information.

Official Languages committee  It's actually until the end of April.

Official Languages committee  Based on my experience and all of the discussions that took place, I'd like to assure you beyond any doubt that I never felt any hostility toward the francophonie; quite the opposite, in fact.

Official Languages committee  A letter was sent on behalf of the Minister of Finance, Mr. Fedeli, and Ms. Mulroney, to the attention of Mr. Morneau, the Minister of Finance, and Ms. Joly. The letter indicated quite clearly that Ontario is not receiving its fair share and that it would be important to rectify

Official Languages committee  Yes, it did.

Official Languages committee  In fact, I don't think I referred to that letter. Someone else mentioned it. At this stage, the file is ongoing. The objective of the letter was simply to inform the minister of the fact that the federal government, through Ms. Joly, had decided to allocate $1.9 million to the n

Official Languages committee  No, not to my knowledge.

Official Languages committee  I will not be able to comment on that matter. I believe there may have been a call at some point but I'm not aware of the details and this is not the type of...

Official Languages committee  Not to my knowledge.

Official Languages committee  It is not up to me to suggest anything to Ms. Mulroney. That decision is up to her. All I can say today is that Ms. Mulroney was very favourable to the federal injection of $2 million. She stated publicly that it was a good starting point, but she also reminded people, as I said