In any case, that's what I've heard from a reliable source. If that's the case, so much the better. When Mr. O'Connor was Minister of Defence, Mr. D'Amours asked him some simple questions in French that he was not even able to answer in French. He was a senior official. The example has to come from above. Don't be embarrassed to say that the example must indeed come from above, from both colonels and generals. Otherwise, why ask soldiers to speak French and English, if the senior officers who give the orders aren't able to do it. I'm not arguing with you, but that's a fact, and I hope the ombudsman will take a kick at this hornets nest and make this major problem disappear.
Now, as we know, the chances of advancement for unilingual francophone military members are not as great as for unilingual anglophone members. Have you seen any evidence of this? Do you have the power to make recommendations to remedy the situation so that course material, in accordance with what I had unanimously passed here on the subject of a study... Imagine, the Minister of National Defence refused to provide the information. It took a unanimous vote from the committee to get the information. That's the documentation that Mr. Paré studied. Do you have that power?
I hope you'll recommend that everything should be fair and equal. Do you agree on that? How can you present that recommendation to enable all recruits to have an equal opportunity for promotion within the Canadian Forces?