Mr. Speaker, my question is for the President of the Treasury Board.
According to Treasury Board's latest statistics, anglophones in Quebec are five times better served by the federal public service than francophones in Canada in general. In fact, to serve an anglophone minority of 9.2 per cent in Quebec, the federal government staffs 52.4 per cent of its jobs with bilinguals. If the federal government used the same ratio in Ontario, it would have to staff 10,000 bilingual positions instead of 3,000.
How can the President of the Treasury Board justify this lopsided application of federal standards for service in the other official language?