Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm pleased to have this opportunity to discuss this important area. Mr. Chairman, I sense, reading the report, quite a degree of frustration -- there is moderate language here but I think I can read between the lines -- with government departments. Just a few quick examples. Page 66, despite the Languages Commissioner encouraging the GNWT to do a press release to inform the public and its employees about section 14(2) on services to the public being proclaimed, the GNWT decided not to announce the coming into force of this section. This is not an encouraging sign, the report said.
Later the report says, the Languages Commissioner has also pressed the GNWT to come up with some working definitions for significant demand and other phrases and service levels within the act. No success. There's been a suggestion referred to on page 68 that, official languages should be used on signs in Yellowknife. It has not been accepted. There have been a number of meetings to get the GNWT to draft regulations, and the report notes a reluctance to make those changes. And there are other invitations. With that background in mind, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Languages Commissioner to describe, just generally, how are her relations with government departments? Are they as strained as I seem to detect even from the moderate tone of the report?