Mr. Speaker, the Commissioner of Official Languages, Victor Goldbloom, admitted again yesterday that the military college in Kingston is not at all ready to receive French-speaking soldiers and give them the training courses they need. According to him, the linguistic record of the Kingston college is markedly worse than that of the Saint-Jean college.
The commissioner also noted that only 6,000 of the 13,000 so-called bilingual positions in the Canadian Forces are held by people with a sufficient knowledge of French. Why are francophones always underrepresented? Why does the federal government insist on closing down the only French-language military college in the country? The Liberals are showing their true colours. The facts are there: the government refuses to make room for francophones.
The reality is that French is an irritant to the Canadian government.