Has your Commission instituted a process for approaching educational institutions to inform the students that in the next few years the public service is going to have to hire 25,000 people, for example? Do your representatives go into the schools to explain that for jobs designated as bilingual, people have to be bilingual? Are the schools being encouraged, both English and French schools? These young people go to school for 12 years and then spend four years in university. It seems to me that learning a language is doable in 16 years. In their case, the government should not have to pay for them to get training later.
On February 12th, 2008. See this statement in context.