Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Pelletier, welcome.
Clearly, you are in favour of Bill C-203 being passed. In your opinion, should this bill be amended to indicate that judges must be functionally bilingual or maintain its current wording? The government distinguishes between bilingual judges and functionally bilingual judges, since it has begun to appoint judges who consider themselves functionally bilingual. The witnesses we have heard before you, including Justice LeBlanc, talked about language skills rather than bilingualism.
It is hard to be against motherhood and apple pie, but I personally make a distinction between someone who is bilingual and someone who is truly bilingual.
Do you make that distinction?