I am in favour of Supreme Court justices being bilingual. However, I am against the idea of telling people who are not perfectly bilingual that there is no room for them in an institution of the Government of Canada. It is not in Canada's interests to tell people across the country that they cannot be part of our system of governance because they are not perfectly bilingual.
As I said, it is also important to talk about numbers. Of the 4.1 million Canadians who were born in British Columbia, approximately 60,000 consider themselves bilingual. How many of them are lawyers and how many of them are lawyers working at the Supreme Court?