Canadian Heritage committee  That's a fair point.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that's an excellent suggestion and I thank you for raising it. We will do that.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're totally correct on that.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not an easy question for me as an official to answer. It really depends—

Canadian Heritage committee  To be clear, I think it's very doable. There's a high level of consensus in many places. Of course, I cannot presume to know the level of consensus among parliamentarians. That's why there are those discussions, but it's fair to say there's a high level of consensus about the urg

Canadian Heritage committee  That's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  They will be appointed by Governor in Council, based on consultations, as we mentioned earlier, with a variety of indigenous groups—I will not say “diverse”; I will say “a variety”—in order to make sure the commissioner is acceptable to indigenous people. The commissioner will

Canadian Heritage committee  The minister will be in charge of consulting to come up with a short list and a recommendation to the Governor in Council.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right, bearing in mind that the commissioner will be the CEO of that organization, while the directors will have the function of supporting, on a distinction base, the various groups—first nations, Métis or Inuit.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that's probably a given.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't want to state that, because it's going to be based on the consultation. Some people may decide that the person doesn't have to be indigenous, but I think most likely they will be. For example with the tax commission, from which some of the obligations have been borrowed,

Canadian Heritage committee  I will ask Mélanie and Stephen to tell you that. There were two phases. In the first phase we looked at how we were actually going to proceed. That phase lasted from 2016 to 2017.

Canadian Heritage committee  It could be less than that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can tell you that that was quite forcefully explained to us by our partners, and I'm saying that very humbly. You will have Mr. Bellegarde here, and you will probably want to ask him about the discussion we had about that. We definitely were committed to actually implementing

Canadian Heritage committee  The UNDRIP is an international instrument, as you know, and it has very clear definition of a series of objectives that pertain to languages. As with any international instrument, it needs to be operationalized in domestic law. The reference in the preamble and purposes of the a