You said that 32 senior public servants no longer meet the bilingual requirements—I imagine it's a CBC or required linguistic profile—and that they must go back and take courses to become bilingual again. I have a lot of difficulty understanding that. Where I come from, we learn French and pick up English. I don't understand how people who have worked for a long time in the public service, regardless of the department, agency or Crown corporation, get a bilingual rating, then lose it and have to get it again. It's not like losing a scarf and having to go and buy another one. Explain this to me. I don't understand it.
On February 3rd, 2011. See this statement in context.