I'd like to qualify some of your statements. For example, I wouldn't say that National Defence's plans represent a way of shirking obligations under the act or of making it so that senior officers are no longer required to be bilingual.
If I understand correctly, that represents an effort to be more targeted and to adopt a model that is somewhat similar to that of the public service, where there are unilingual French regions, bilingual regions and unilingual English regions for administrative functions and with respect to the right to work in one's language.
As regards appointments, I believe that's really in order to play a national leadership role. I think it's very important to be able to communicate with all Canadians in both official languages. I haven't concealed my views on that subject.