Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
First of all, Mr. Chairman, I want to bring it to your attention and to that of the colleagues from your party that, following the Quebec-bashing at the last meeting, it would be worthwhile for you to consult page 5 of today's Le Droit. You said, within your party, that English is swept under the rug in Quebec since it isn't taught to children. Here we learn that Quebec City is more bilingual than Ottawa. There may be food for thought here for the people from your party. I want to point that out to you. It's certainly something you'll have to take note of.
That said, ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to examine efforts to promote bilingualism in postsecondary institutions across Canada because we have information that they are lacking, or that there are too few or not enough people capable of speaking both official languages well enough to get jobs in the federal government, for example. It must be said that the federal government isn't doing its job either. When there are Supreme Court judges who aren't bilingual, when we have deputy ministers who aren't required to be bilingual, Canadian embassadors who—