The aim of the official language transformation model is clear: it's to better meet the exigencies of the law. We have areas where we have done particularly well, primarily under part III, military justice. We've made great strides in this particular area. Even in the area of our senior leadership—among our colonels, navy captains, and general flag officers—most of our senior officers have a level of bilingualism. The numbers are quite high when we're looking at BBB, and they are certainly very high even at the CBC level.
What we're saying is that progressively, with our senior leadership, we will put forth an aggressive plan to rapidly close the gap and ensure that our senior leadership meets the expectancies of a superior level of bilingualism. That will be done progressively, starting this year, by having the lieutenant-general level and above meet CBC. And I can say, today, that the expectancies are to meet that for December 2007. Today, already, we meet those exigencies. I checked last week.
Two years later, in 2009, the same will apply to our major-generals who occupy bilingual functions or who are in bilingual regions or are even outside bilingual regions. The same will apply to brigadier-generals starting in 2009, and there will be a very aggressive second language training program for colonels and navy captains once they're first promoted. It doesn't mean that when those people are promoted to brigadier-general or higher ranks that they're not sent on second language training to even further accelerate the process. What we're saying in the transformation model is that the engagement for ensuring that our senior leadership becomes bilingual very quickly is certainly an engagement that is listed in the transformation model.
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