Haha: you get what you want to hear. And then you wonder why people keep bringing up the age and experience thing .... Ah, Malcolm .... don't ever change ! ;-)
Not sure which of my points you're referring to, but . . .
Re: Ashton and substance, I got further repetitions of a meme with nothing to support it. Repetition of a meme isn't evidence. Indeed, it lacks substance.
Re: French capacity, while there are outliers, there is an overall consensus in what I've read in a variety of places that Ashton, Mulcair, Saganash and Topp are up to the required standard in French and that Chisholm, Dewar and Singh are not. I've seen a couple of commentators rate Singh and Dewar slightly higher, but those have been far and away the exceptions.