I am an assistant deputy minister, which is a certain ranking within the public service. I must have level C. All assistant deputy ministers of the public service must be able to work in both official languages. Policies developed in recent years have produced very encouraging statistics as to senior managers' level of bilingualism. Things are consistently improving because the requirements are very firm: one must achieve a good level to manage files in both languages.
On February 5th, 2008. See this statement in context.