Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm going to continue along the lines of what Mr. Chong said in his introduction. I was born in Hawkesbury, the second largest bilingual town in Canada, and I live in the largest bilingual city in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. We read that on page 5 of today's Le Droit.
We learn French, but we catch English. That's what happens when you're in the minority. It isn't because I went to English school that that happened to me. In Gatineau, it isn't because they all went to English school either that people can speak English, but because they work in the federal public service. More often than not, they have to work in English. We had proof of that earlier. The place where I'm from is located between Montreal, the third largest bilingual city in Canada by size, and Gatineau. There's a social reality.
I have a few questions to ask about learning. Does the principal of an immersion school have to be bilingual in order to get his position?