I'm going to answer in two ways. I'm going to answer first as the head of an organization that I'm responsible for, and then as the president of the Public Service Commission.
First, as the head of an organization that I'm responsible for, I am somewhat frustrated by the individuals who I invest in with a lot of language training. They pass their tests and I don't hear another word of French.
I believe we all have an obligation to encourage people and perhaps as well to ask them to use their training.
Because of the number of francophones I have around my executive table, my language skills have increased dramatically since I have been at the commission. My lawyers insist on having the technical legal debates in French and of course I have to understand that. They stay in French and they will repeat things for me and explain more slowly. So I think a big step for management and the organization in the federal government is actually a much greater utilization of the language.
I think that has two parts. I think francophones should stick with speaking French and I think the English people should be encouraged. Sometimes that's vice versa. I have the odd francophone who is terrified of speaking English as well. So I think that's an important element of where we're not yet at.
In my role as the guardian of the staffing process, we will continue with the language testing. We will continue to renew those language tests. We will renew and have more information about what the language test means, because that has gotten out of date. So we will do that and we will continue with our insistence on enforcing that language is an essential element of the merit test.