OTTAWA – The Official Languages Commissioner says the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference broke the law by sharing government documentary evidence in English only on its website and should translate it all before posting it.

But the head of the inquiry’s answer is non.

In a letter to Official Languages Commissioner Raymond Théberge last week, Foreign Interference Commission (FIC) head Marie-Josée Hogue said it would be quite literally impossible for her team to fulfill its mandate if it had to translate “thousands of pages of documents.”