Procedure and House Affairs committee  We are a bilingual country. We have the Official Languages Act. It's in place precisely because not all of us speak the two languages and everyone is entitled to be able to understand everything that goes on in our democracy. That's why we have interpretation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is the big challenge we have. We're here because we have a huge challenge. Our challenge here in the Canadian Parliament is all the more huge because we have a shortage of interpreters. We don't disagree that there's a shortage everywhere, but here, we do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Canada did conduct a survey dating back to December 2021, I think it was. Measuring the amount of time spoken in Parliament by different parliamentarians of different languages, indeed we found that English has predominated and French has been snuffed out.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. It is very unfortunate that we as freelancers.... This is around the world. Freelancers around the world are suffering injuries. Freelancers are offering services in institutions around the world where the institutions are doing some tracking, but here we a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. We have a volume control button on our console in the booth.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is a serious question, and we take your question very seriously, but it is a fact that interpreters, during the pandemic, have been working with their fingers on their volume control. One of the issues we have with the hybrid format, with people in the room and also coming i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What you ask is a very important and crucial question. We keep insisting that in-person sound is the best quality sound for us to work with. Anything that's not in-person sound is going to be very difficult for us to work with. It produces poor quality and it is dangerous.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. We in our association have actually very little information about the most recent testing that's been conducted by the House administration's experts. We have received no report. We have been aware of testing that's been going on for two years. The

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We would agree with what Matthew Ball has stated. There's a lot of attention paid right now to trying to increase capacity. AIIC Canada conducted a survey in July and August and we have identified that indeed there have been people leaving the profession because of difficult co

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We thank you for inviting the International Association of Conference Interpreters Canada, or AIIC Canada, to present our thoughts on hybrid proceedings. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank my colleagues, the interpreters. We belong to a global organization that operates