The commissioner recently concluded its investigation of the RCMP and bilingual services on the Hill. That took five or six years.
The recommendations that came out of that are quite simple. They include making an inventory of bilingual staff, a biennial reminder of linguistic obligations and an action plan when complaints are received. There is nothing hard about that. In my opinion, it's inexplicable that the RCMP has not even followed up on these three recommendations. Faced with that fact, the commissioner issued a report indicating that no action was taken and that there is nothing more that can be done.
That is the problem we are facing. The same applies to the National Energy Board, which has once again trampled on language rights by publishing the Trans Mountain report in English only. I will file a complaint with the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, but unfortunately I fear there will be no consequences.
Would the administrative tribunal you talked about be able to resolve these problems that keep coming up in organizations reluctant to apply the Official Languages Act?