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House Hansard - 18

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 15, 2021 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 18 - Dec/15/21
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Dec/15/21 2:30:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, stated that Bill 21 on secularism in Quebec was profoundly discriminatory. This legislation, however, was legitimately voted upon in a parliament that, like all others, is sovereign, and there is broad support for the law in Quebec. Bob Rae failed in his fundamental duty to show restraint. Will the Prime Minister recall Ambassador Rae immediately, as that is clearly what should be done?
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Context: House Hansard - 18 - Dec/15/21
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Dec/15/21 2:31:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have seen people who do not deserve to be in their jobs, but there they are. I will not name names. The Prime Minister is condoning a smear campaign against a law and a nation that are just as legitimate as his own pretensions. He is condoning an ambassador's decision to insult the Quebec nation as a whole. Am I to understand that he was consulted and agreed with his ambassador's statement?
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Context: House Hansard - 18 - Dec/15/21
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Dec/15/21 2:44:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister wants to position a teacher as a victim, but she herself said that she did not consider it a religious symbol but a political symbol of opposition to Bill 101. She was hired and assigned to a classroom after Bill 21 was passed, but the Prime Minister is commending the Liberal Party's ambassador to the UN for insulting Quebec. Is the Prime Minister planning to fund challenges to Bill 21?
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Context: House Hansard - 18 - Dec/15/21
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Dec/15/21 2:45:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder why I am tempted to again tell the Prime Minister to grow a spine. Should Quebec hold a referendum on Bill 21? What happens then? Would the Prime Minister have the courage of confronting Bill 21, after shying away from it in the federal election, and of saying that he will not have the courage to confront Bill 21 in the Quebec election? Does he have the courage to admit that it is because he is afraid of Quebec public opinion, which is largely in favour of Quebec secularism?
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Context: House Hansard - 18 - Dec/15/21
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Dec/15/21 3:02:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there are two little things I want to point out. The Prime Minister seems fine with the fact that I do not have the right to sit in the House with a mask bearing the Bloc Québécois logo. Is that a restriction of my fundamental freedom? I also want to set the record straight. This teacher did not lose her job. If the Prime Minister could stop repeating lies, that would be great. I am looking at all these people over there, and I would like all Quebeckers to see the Liberals trampling over a law from their own nation. Let us get this sorted out. Why not hold a referendum on Bill 21 in Quebec? We would not ask the Prime Minister to do it, since the word “referendum” makes him break out in hives. Why not vote on the claims of support—
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Context: House Hansard - 18 - Dec/15/21
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Dec/15/21 3:03:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, trouble, trouble, toil and trouble. For goodness' sake, get thee behind me, Jean Charest. While Bob Rae insults Quebec, the Quebec nation, the National Assembly of Quebec and attacks his own people, the Prime Minister is working so hard here to come off as a nice guy. What does the Prime Minister have to say to the Uighur nation? Do the same values of humanity apply? What does the Prime Minister have to say when his ambassador does not stand up for the Tigray region? What does the Prime Minister have to say when indigenous people do not have clean drinking water? What does the Prime Minister have to say to Raif Badawi?
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