I have to interrupt you because I would like to get at one thing.
You say that an anglophone should learn French in a francophone environment. However, francophones can learn English without being in an anglophone environment. Don't you agree with me?
I'd also like to hear from Mr. Labrie. If anglophones want to be able to have jobs in Ottawa, they have to learn English. They don't have a choice; if they don't learn it, they won't find a job.
The government could adopt policies that would tell the universities and primary schools that people have to be bilingual in order to work for the federal government, that the future is a bilingual country, that there are two official languages in this country and that to have a job in government, you'll have to be able to speak both languages.
I'm an Acadian, and I come from the Saint-Sauveur region in New Brunswick. I can guarantee you that the percentage of English speakers is only 1%. I'm talking about the community, about schools and everything. In spite of that, if I hadn't learned English, I wouldn't have gotten a job. It was easy. I didn't need anglophones around me to learn it because, if I didn't learn it, I wouldn't have gotten a job.
Why will people even in francophone regions learn English except because they want to get a job? I think it's too easy. Pardon me, but it's too easy for anglophones to complete their education and afterwards find a job.
Mr. Labrie, you clearly said that anglophones or francophones who were able to speak French on leaving university found jobs in less than one year because they had both official languages.
However, it's harder for those who haven't learned both languages. Doesn't the government have a role to play in telling our training institutions what our country is?