Mr. Chairman, I'm very pleased to see that the Conservative Party and Liberal Party are going to vote in favour of Mr. Paquette's bill so that we can talk about it more here, before its third reading.
Mr. Commissioner, in your report—perhaps it was also in other previous reports—you emphasized the entire issue of eliminating non-imperative bilingual staffing for executive positions, that is to say for federal senior public servants.
Have you had any reaction on that point? Is a bill necessary in order to do that? What's the magic formula for ensuring that senior executives, those in a position of authority over all government employees, who, in areas declared or designated bilingual, must learn both official languages, currently do not have to learn the second official language? I think that's inconsistent, if you consider the spirit of service in French and in English in the federal context. Where do we stand in that regard?