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House Hansard - 63

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • May/3/22 2:58:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Robert Laplante testified before the Standing Committee on Official Languages and said, “There are not two majorities in Canada; there is only one, and it is an anglophone majority, a representative group of which lives in Quebec.” The government said the same thing in its 2020 throne speech. It said, and I quote, “the situation of French is unique. There are almost 8 million Francophones in Canada within a region of over 360 million inhabitants who are almost exclusively Anglophone.” Is that still what the Minister of Official Languages thinks?
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Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • May/3/22 2:59:57 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the situation of French is unique, but not according to federal language law. Here again I would like to quote what Robert Laplante told the committee. He said, “It is...indefensible to suggest that the situation of French in Quebec is perfectly symmetrical with that of English in Canada and, likewise, with the situation of anglophone and francophone minorities”. Even the Prime Minister said in 2020: “[F]or Canada to be bilingual, Quebec must first and foremost be francophone.” Is that still what the Minister of Official Languages thinks?
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