Mr. Fraser, I come from Alberta. I was until recently a practising lawyer with the Law Society of Alberta. I am concerned, quite frankly, that if this bill were to become law, the Attorney General would have a difficult time finding a competent jurist from the jurisdiction that I used to practise law in for an appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.
You might know better than I. I don't know if your office maintains statistics on bilingual judges in western Canada--and I know there are some--but my suggestion to you is that there are not many. But perhaps you have data to prove me wrong.