Thank you, Mr. Blaney.
I want to make it clear to my colleague that I'm learning French, not out of ambition, but because I love and am interested in languages.
Mr. Doucet, I'm a member from Alberta. I get the feeling that many young Albertans would like to take French courses in high school, but they subsequently don't have a lot of opportunity to use that language and therefore may lose their ability to speak it. The same is true of bilingual public servants who don't often have the opportunity to speak French. French-language services are requested from time to time, but it's not very common.
Do you have any suggestions as to how public servants and other individuals who have taken French courses can practise the language? Actually, French isn't widely used in our society.