Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, Ms. Fraser, ladies and gentlemen.
I am going to proceed randomly, according to the chapters that affect me the most and that concern me given my parliamentary duties.
I would like to ask you a question about recruitment in the armed forces. Historically, the Canadian Forces have not been very tender towards Quebeckers and French-speaking Canadians, during their training. I am talking about providing services in French to soldiers, so that they develop a sense of belonging in the armed forces, which is their own, and where it should be just as normal to speak French as it is English. That is the theory, but not necessarily the practice.
Did this attitude show up as an aspect that could explain problems with recruitment?