I wouldn't disagree, and I certainly don't measure the strength of bilingualism by the total number of federal employees. But I think that what is also clear is that when a federal institution goes through dramatic cuts, it becomes harder to maintain the same level of service.
I had a conversation with the head of one federal agency that had gone from 450 employees to 150. He said it's just harder for them to do what they were doing before with that dramatic loss in the number of employees. So it's not a question of blind identification. It's a question of to what extent is the service available and to what extent are those institutions being considered in terms of the promotion of the equal status of both languages? I always like coming back to the elimination of the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1995. It was seen as a gesture of equal cuts because Royal Roads had been eliminated. But over the last 20 years it has become increasingly difficult for the armed forces to maintain the same level of bilingualism for its officers because they simply don't have that resource. It's harder for them to recruit. It's harder for them to train officers who previously had gone to and spent several semesters in Saint-Jean.
So those kinds of reductions have to take into account the need to promote and protect both official languages and the equal status of both languages.