You didn't consult your list; you remembered; that's good.
We're talking about the provinces and provincial areas of jurisdiction. Wouldn't we also need a message from the federal government? I'm going to throw out an idea and I would like to have your opinion on the subject. One example of a message is that the government is currently appointing deputy ministers who are not bilingual. How can you ask a province to do its duty when the federal government appoints deputy ministers who aren't bilingual? I would like to hear your opinion on that subject. You needn't feel uncomfortable.
I've previously said that I had introduced a bill concerning the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Canada doesn't have an obligation to appoint a bilingual judge, although the law is written in English and French. Shouldn't the federal government start by sending itself a message as an employer, through these appointments? As I mentioned earlier, whether we're talking about a welder or a mechanic, the employer can tell the college that the mechanic it wants to hire needs to know this and that. He must learn it in four years or else he won't be a mechanic. Shouldn't the employer, the government, do the same in the case of its training and education institutions? That's not interference in fields of provincial jurisdiction. The government presents itself as the employer and specifically states what it takes to work for it. If people want to work for the government or apply for a job, that's what they will have to do. That would be the law.
We shouldn't do like New Brunswick, which has an Official Languages Act and which fights in court for it not to apply in the health field. That's like saying that there's no obligation for the francophone community in the health field, but that there is a law for the rest. Whatever the case may be, we're going to debate that in court, and I believe we'll win the battle, once again. We have to fight in order to win our cases. I'm offering you a little food for thought as to where the government stands on Canada's official languages.