We do not require that for every position, but that is often a requirement. We expect French to be spoken and services to be available in French.
I forgot to mention the Francophone Significant Benefit program. It was a temporary worker program that brought in only a few hundred every year. It was important to give Canadians priority in this market. That is why we reviewed all of our temporary worker programs.
We hope to bring in thousands of francophone immigrants. I don't mean temporary workers, but rather permanent immigrants. In my department, 30% of employees are francophone and 70% are anglophone, and this department does not administer immigration programs for Quebec. Yes, we need to strengthen our ability to increase francophone immigration to a level never before seen in the rest of Canada, but we are definitely working on it.
I worked at Foreign Affairs, and I always felt comfortable speaking in either official language. Yes, there are some gaps at times, and we need to keep an eye on those, but we have the best public service in the world when it comes to having two official languages. We also have the best Parliament. We are highly regarded in terms of our interpreters' skills and the systems that allow us to work in the official language of our choice.