What you have said is fundamentally important. As part of our study, we are focussing on the capacity of our universities to train bilingual graduates.
In the federal public service, there are people whose usual language is French but who almost always speak English at work, which is perfectly abnormal. They feel pressured to speak English because their superior does not understand French. It is fine to say that deputy ministers are all bilingual; the fact is that there are different levels of bilingualism.
I would like to take this analysis one step further. To be a minister, you have to be bilingual and set an example for your employees. That should be the reality in a bilingual country, a country that claims to have a bilingual federal public service able to provide services in the language of the individual wanting to speak to a minister, deputy minister or other official.
If the prime minister is bilingual and ministers are bilingual, then we will have demonstrated that capacity. You have to lead by example.