Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, Messrs. Lussier and Gauthier. This is very interesting.
We have talked about many things today. We talked about the next action plan and about the roadmap for Canada's official languages 2013-2018. I am still very surprised to see that we have not spoken, or have said very little, about health.
We have heard a lot about education, early childhood, and immigration, but very little about health. And yet health in French was a winner in the roadmap for Canada's official languages 2013-2018, and even before that. The roadmap even stated the following:
The health field has seen steady progress in recent years and the long term, as a result of Roadmap funding.... It's important for health that the Roadmap be renewed, because although health is a provincial responsibility, linguistic duality is a federal responsibility.
To your knowledge, will health be part of the new action plan? I think it is important that it be included. I am a francophone first and foremost. I can get along in English, but I have always said that, when you are sick or hurt, you are hurt in your mother tongue.
A lot of progress has been made with the roadmaps; now it will be an action plan. Can you give us a few words on the success stories of the roadmaps? Can we expect another success with the action plan?