Official Languages committee  The departments' approach to official languages must be applied to all their activities. This is not the only thing they are going to mention in their reports on plans and priorities. They are going to talk about all their activities, which cover everything they do.

Official Languages committee  To begin with, compliance with the Official Languages Act is an obligation; it is not necessarily—

Official Languages committee  I think there is a lot of enthusiasm about official languages across Canada. A few years ago, a deputy minister spoke to people from a number of departments in various regions of Canada about practices in the field. There are a lot of examples outside Ottawa, in all regions of Ca

Official Languages committee  Thanks for the question. I talked earlier to Marc about the changes we have been working on for our suite of Treasury Board policies respecting departments with a view to simplifying them. Those are not yet approved by Treasury Board, but we hope to be taking them to the board

Official Languages committee  Yes. We have described our activities, including the development of official language policies for the Treasury Board's approval. We also explain those policies to the departments so that they can implement them. We develop those tools and have them analyzed by the analysts of th

Official Languages committee  I believe it is working well. Marc talked about our activities, which are carried out in close cooperation with the other departments and Canadian Heritage. We have just decided to ask the departments for figures. We have a partnership with Canadian Heritage for the purpose of co

Official Languages committee  There is a set of policies that have been approved by Treasury Board. We are in the process of revising them in order to simplify them and to afford the institutions greater flexibility in exercising their leadership. Mr. Tremblay and his team are doing a lot of work with the dep

Official Languages committee  Yes. Mr. Tremblay, can you answer, please?

Official Languages committee  Mr. Tremblay can answer that question.

Official Languages committee  We are still trying to increase the capacity of human resources. We have a few ways of doing that, learning, our interactions with the community and the authorities of the departments as well. That is an ongoing effort. That is what I can tell you on that point.

Official Languages committee  We have tools to evaluate the institutions' performance. We have already talked about the Management Accountability Framework that we use to evaluate the departments' official languages performance. We also have other tools and even an annual report on official languages. That is

Official Languages committee  We have our own role in carrying out the activities of the road map. In fact we had $17 million dedicated to the Treasury Board Secretariat to that end: $3.4 million a year. That money funds the Official Languages Centre of Excellence, of which Marc is a director. I've described

Official Languages committee  Sure, fair enough. We've got our Official Languages Centre of Excellence, of which Marc Tremblay is the executive director. They're the ones who play the horizontal role across the government to encourage and help departments meet their official languages obligations. We also pro

Official Languages committee  Are you referring to the activities of training and what not within the secretariat itself, or...?

Official Languages committee  We have approaches for employees. I talked about the language buddy system. There are various learning methods. We encourage the use of both languages at meetings with employees. We also have examples of practices, such as having an official language committee or a champion in th