I do not want to be impolite, but I have very little time remaining. With regard to the drafting of documents, are people encouraged concretely and clearly to draft their documents in French? Are they told that their superiors will be pleased to receive them?
My riding is one of, if not the riding with the largest number of federal public servants. In the greater urban area of Gatineau and Ottawa, that is a fact of life. People who are very active defenders and supporters of their language no longer write in French because they are frowned upon for doing so. Writing in French delays the process, and they are being blamed for work delays. These are things that I am being told. I need not go further into that, but I wanted you to know.
How can you make them feel confident? That is basically what I want to know. I have seen the numbers, but I wanted to make sure that those people did not feel they were being punished at work for using French in the federal public service, and particularly in your department.