I just want to comment that there were some people, now deceased, from Cumberland House who were well-decorated people in the Canadian armed forces. I think they were a long shot from having their grade 10, but I'll have to double-check on that. They were real war heroes from World War II.
I want to zero in on the aboriginal recruitment issue, because I have a very high first nations population in my riding. I was at a powwow a number of years ago, and I think four young aboriginals who were in the armed forces were being recognized at the powwow. Three of them were in the American armed forces. My read on their careers was that they were in it for the long term. I think one of them even had some stripes, so they'd moved up.
I had a discussion with them after the ceremonies, with their parents involved. Some of the comments were interesting. One that came up from one set of parents—it's too bad Mr. Proulx is not here now—was that they actually thought that the language requirements would impair their ability in the Canadian armed forces. That was one of the reasons they'd moved to the American armed forces. They were bilingual, Cree and English, but they weren't francophone.
I'm not quite clear on what the situation is inside the Canadian armed forces in terms of language. If you reach the officer class and so on, would you have to be functionally bilingual? Is that the requirement in the armed forces?