In recent leadership campaigns, some candidates failed to win the support because unilingual delegates, who were members of their party, concluded that this candidate, as much as they liked him and as much as they supported his policies, would not be able to survive in a French-language debate and would not be able to communicate with Canadians in both official languages.
Dans les campagnes au leadership récentes, certains candidats n'ont pu obtenir l'appui nécessaire parce que des délégués unilingues, membres de leur parti, ont conclu que ce candidat, même s'ils l'aimaient et appuyaient ses politiques, ne pourrait survivre dans un débat en français et ne pourrait communiquer avec les Canadiens dans les deux langues officielles.