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House Hansard - 228

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 3, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 228 - Oct/3/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Oct/3/23 3:31:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Quebec immigration minister, Christine Fréchette, is asking the federal government to wake up. She said that these figures “change the game” in terms of the “state of the situation”. Quebec controls its permanent immigration, but not its temporary immigration; that falls to the federal government. With half a million non-permanent residents in Quebec alone, the pressure on our education system, our ability to teach people French, our housing supply and, in short, our ability to integrate people is becoming too great. Will the government lower its targets?
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Context: House Hansard - 228 - Oct/3/23
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Oct/3/23 3:45:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, a report by Radio-Canada reveals that the RCMP hires unilingual anglophone executives for high-ranking bilingual positions. They do not speak a word of French. They are not taking French lessons. In no way, shape or form are these people qualified for their positions, not today and not any other day. It is a blatant violation of the Official Languages Act, a violation that is so commonplace in Ottawa that even the RCMP—the police, for crying out loud—is in breach of the act. Will the minister do something?
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Context: House Hansard - 228 - Oct/3/23
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Oct/3/23 3:46:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this new law was supposed to put an end to these cases of contempt for French at the federal level. Every single francophone will be paying close attention to what the new minister does. This is the first blatant case of a federal agency thinking it is still okay to undermine French since the new Official Languages Act came into effect. Will the minister demonstrate to the entire public service that those days are over, or will he demonstrate that it is still okay to undermine French?
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Context: House Hansard - 228 - Oct/3/23
Hon. Pablo Rodriguez (Minister of Transport, Lib.)
  • Oct/3/23 4:05:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to ask the Conservatives to stop attacking the Bloc Québécois, which is having enough trouble as it is. I want to tell my colleague that the government will always stand up in defence of official languages. There is not just one. There are two: French and English. They are both equal.
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Context: House Hansard - 228 - Oct/3/23
Mr. Xavier Barsalou-Duval (Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, BQ)
  • Oct/3/23 4:05:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Transport can laugh it up all he wants, but Quebeckers are worried. Every time CN is mentioned in the same breath as official languages, it is because it is going off the rails. In 2020, CN moved about 60 rail traffic controller jobs out west. Last year, it did not have a single francophone on its board. Today, CN wants to move 50 customer service jobs from Quebec to western Canada. Matters of language are also matters of safety. Does the Minister of Transport agree with these CN cuts, yes or no? Does he think that CN has to offer services in French, yes or no?
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