Our commitment as a government is to ensure that the appointment of the next justice to the Supreme Court is functionally bilingual. There have been discussions in the past with respect to previous appointees and their learning French or English, as the case may be, but in this case our commitment is to ensure that there is a functionally bilingual justice appointed to the Supreme Court. Again, if we're talking about the indigenous population, I recognize that there are eminent scholars and lawyers, as well as judges, who have an equal ability to put their names forward.
On August 11th, 2016. See this statement in context.