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House Hansard - 139

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 1, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Dec/1/22 2:41:19 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Mr. Speaker, Quebec's minister of the French language is concerned because all indicators point to French being in decline. One of the main indicators comes from Statistics Canada: One in five Quebeckers cannot work in French in Quebec. The numbers are even worse in Montreal and the Outaouais region. Knowing that, why does the minister want to allow federally regulated companies to use Bill C‑13 to circumvent the Charter of the French Language? Her own statistics prove the contrary. There is a decline in the use of French in the workplace in Quebec. Does she not listen to science?
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Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia
  • Dec/1/22 5:17:42 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Madam Speaker, I would also like to thank the member for taking part in a panel in front of about 40 students from the Max Bell School of Public Policy this morning. It was wonderful to have her perspective as a westerner, and as a parliamentarian generally. I would imagine that, when we are dealing with matters of national security in cybersecurity and systems that are key to our well-being, there might be a need in certain cases to be a little more circumspect. I would hope, believe and expect, because every bill that is introduced to the House has to go through a charter analysis, that any such measure the member refers to would pass the test of the charter.
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