Okay, fair enough.
Speaking not on behalf of the government but as a member of Parliament in the Ottawa area, I can tell you this is a big problem. I hear frustration from public servants all the time about this. At some point, given the demographic changes that are occurring in our workforce and the recruitment needs that our public service is going to face, we are going to have to find a way to make this system less cumbersome if we're going to recruit a skilled workforce into the middle and upper levels of the public service that we're going to need.
Some people might consider that to be politically incorrect. It's a numerical reality. I hear it from all sorts of people, from all parts of the national capital region. I was even approached by a member of one of the public sector unions who is a francophone, who was talking about his frustration of seeing this system and its encumbrances imposed upon some of his co-workers. There has to be a way to improve the way this testing works so that we can get people into the right positions, at the same time as guaranteeing that the public will always have service in the official language of its choice--either official language. I think we can do better.
The private sector does this all the time. Any national corporation with customers in and outside of Quebec has to manage the same problems. They have to provide services to a unilingual francophone market and a unilingual anglophone market at the same. So there has to be a way we can do this efficiently.
I very much encourage you to pursue any innovative techniques to move forward, because I am convinced we can do a lot better than we're doing. What are your comments on that?