Thank you very much. I certainly appreciate you coming here today to the speak to the committee and take questions. Thank you for preparing your brief as well.
I hail from Newfoundland and Labrador. As you know, we've been 60 years in Confederation and 500 years as an entity, and we've not yet had a member of the Supreme Court of Canada. We do speak two languages in our province, and we do have French language schools, but I fear that because we are not what one would consider a truly bilingual province, perhaps the competency or the excellence in French may not be there, and I would worry--and I have heard a number of my colleagues from Newfoundland and Labrador question this--whether or not that would be an impediment to having a Newfoundlander and Labradorian sit on the highest court of this land.
Could you comment on that at all?