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Official Languages - Tabling of Reports

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Statement made on 08 December 2009 by Senator Claudette Tardif

Hon. Claudette Tardif (Deputy Leader of the Opposition):

My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. The final report on the 2003-2008 Official Languages Action Plan should have been tabled before the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality 2008-2013 was introduced. Allow me to read from section 36 of the accountability and coordination framework in Annex A of the action plan:

In accordance with the mandate he has received from the Prime Minister, the Minister responsible works with the President of the Treasury Board, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Canadian Heritage to coordinate the presentation to the government of interim and final reports on the implementation of the Action Plan.

The interim report has been presented, but not the final report. When will the final report on the action plan be presented?

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