Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have a question for Madame d'Auray. As the chief human resources officer for the government, you've got a pretty big responsibility, seeing that the Government of Canada, with all its agencies and departments, is the largest employer in the country. If you include all the crown corporations and the like, it employs close to half a million Canadians. Yet we seem to have trouble hiring public servants who are bilingual when they start. As a consequence, we have to devote a significant amount of resources and effort to training many unilingual public servants to ensure they are bilingual.
Have you or has your group tried to indicate to the universities and colleges producing these graduates that they are not coming to us with the qualifications we need? In other words, Canadian universities aren't producing the bilingual graduates we need in the public service. Have those discussions gone on directly with either the universities or their associations?