Mr. Michael Ferguson at the Public Accounts Committee

On October 31st, 2011. See this statement in context.

October 31st, 2011 / 4:20 p.m.

Nominee for the position of Auditor General of Canada, As an Individual

I have prepared some statements in French because I was expecting some questions about my French language capability. So I prepared some of those in French.

My capabilities in French are more in terms of reading and understanding than of conversation. It is in conversation that I still have the weakness, and that's what I still have to work on.

Certainly in this type of environment I wouldn't yet be able to carry on a conversation.

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