You're absolutely right. Through the process of looking into why there may have been a turnaround time difference between anglophones and francophones, we did realize that for some cases bilingual is sufficient, but we recognized, much like we have English-essential positions, that there was a strong need to ensure we had sufficient French-essential positions.
Currently on staff we have close to 200 bilingual or French-essential individuals. I can't give you the precise number, but I would say that it's around 40 to 45 French-essential positions.