Mr. Trottier, I have never seen a case where it was deemed unnecessary to staff a position designated as bilingual with a bilingual person. In my opinion, if the governor in council thinks that a position should be designated bilingual, it is because it has done its homework. May I point out that it is somewhat more difficult to get a position staffed by a bilingual person than it is to have a unilingual person become the incumbent. Within this Parliament and the succession of those we have seen since the implementation of the Official Languages Act, it has always been difficult to have a bilingual person appointed to certain key positions.
Consequently, if the governor in council says that the person must be bilingual, it is because it has done its work. I do not think that a government would randomly decide to designate positions as bilingual without a valid reason.
However, if we wait and if we have to have the legislation amended every time, it is going to take forever to have bilingual people appointed to designated bilingual positions.