Forty million dollars over five years is $8 million a year for all of the provinces. It seems to me that that is not a lot of money to train all of the personnel so that people may have access to justice in both languages throughout Canada. I find this sum very small.
My next question, which is just as important, concerns self-assessment. Table 6 of the report we received from the Library of Parliament provides linguistic statistics. Among the 997 people who applied, 300 had the four required skills. I imagine that these results are not only from self-assessments. We know that the people who want to become judges must at a certain point provide a self-assessment. However, we were told several times that this self-assessment was not ideal. The assessment should be very definite, and be done according to very specific criteria. I were to assess myself to determine my level of bilingualism I would probably give myself a 9 out of 10, but that would not necessarily mean that this complies with reality.