Thanks for the question.
We acknowledge in the brief that it is a highly controversial suggestion. What it emerges from is interviews with public servants to try to better understand the barriers to attracting tech talent, which is really in demand, into government. I think it would be perfectly legitimate to say that the values of bilingualism and the objectives of inclusivity and ensuring that francophone Canadians are represented in the federal public service, which is a policy objective, are valid. If that makes it harder to hire IT talent, we just accept that, because it's a more important value. I think that is perfectly reasonable. Where we were going with that suggestion was to say that objectively the more requirements you have for hiring, the smaller the pool can become.
The other thing we would note, for example, is that the current requirement to be in the office is another huge barrier to attracting tech talent. Acknowledging that government will never be able to compete, dollar for dollar, with the private sector in hiring tech talent, we have to have other incentives, and that's where we're going with that.