Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Commissioner of Official Languages proposed ending the 20 year policy under which unilingual Canadians could become bilingual on the job for bilingual posts. Ending this policy would amount to adopting a policy of systemic discrimination against the 24 million Canadians who do not speak both official languages and who cannot apply for any of the 56,000 public service jobs, including all management positions.
Will the minister today state--and this is an easy one--that she firmly, absolutely, and resolutely rejects that kind of systemic discrimination?