This is a valid point that was made, but wouldn't the place to question that be under the Coast Guard's “capabilities”? It's included in the main motion. That would be a very real capability issue that would come out in the study when we have ample time to question if they have the capacity and capability to respond in both official languages.
As my colleagues Mr. Cormier and Madame Desbiens have said, if you're a unilingual francophone and you're in real distress, you're in an animated environment anyhow, and agitated, and it's important that somebody in the Coast Guard fleet.... It's my understanding that there's always somebody who has that capability, but....
The committee will do as it chooses, but on amending it, I don't know how you would add more to the definition of “capability”. That would be a key capability item within the Canadian Coast Guard.