You read eh? So you don't understand spoken French, listen to SRC, RDI, TV5, ... or recognise various French accents?

I work in a BC office of a global IT outsourcing company with a Montréal  HQ. Apart from my formal training in French the Saguenay, Québec members of our support team tell me that my French is very good. The only comment francophones ever make about my own French accent is to ask me if I lived in France for years.

Trudeau II's speaking ability in both official languages is quite good, IMHO. 

One of my French Instructors translated for Mitterrand when both Trudeau I and Mitterrand appeared in public in Vancouver back in 1982.

Trudeau I did his own translation and my Prof was impressed that Trudeau I said exactly the same thing in both languages, in his opinion as a professional translator and teacher. He also commented that seeing Mitterrand up close left him with the impression that Mitterrand was a walking corpse, in very poor health.