Thank you, Mr. Coderre.
My view is that the Government of Canada should provide services in the language of choice of citizens. It has a constitutional and legal responsibility to do so and it must do so. There is no doubt about that. In the same way, other governments in Canada have similar obligations and even, in some cases, greater obligations than the Government of Canada. New Brunswick, for example, has greater obligations than the Government of Canada.
It was not within my mandate at the beginning to focus particularly on the training situation of federal government employees or the way they offered or provided service to the public. It is clear, and I mentioned this in several places, that providing service in the language of citizens' choice is one of the government's responsibilities, and the government needs to assume that responsibility.
As I mentioned earlier, I agreed to meet with certain individuals and groups because it seemed to me that they were more in line with the mandate I had been given. I refused to meet with others because they were not as good a fit with my mandate and because my time was limited.