The work of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages has three main objective, the second of which is to monitor the implementation of the action plan. After a number of meetings with various stakeholders, we determined that the implementation of the action plan has gone very well. It is important to remember that we are in the middle of a pandemic and that departments have therefore had to adapt in order to be able to do their part.
We will soon be producing a report on the implementation of the action plan, which will include a series of recommendations for the next action plan. In other words, while, in our view, the action plan is relatively good news, it will be helpful, in preparing the next stages, to consider the comments of those closely involved.
In fact, we would like to be part of the consultation process for the next action plan, which is scheduled to begin in March 2023. The action plan—