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House Hansard - 316

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 23, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 316 - May/23/24
Mr. René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, BQ)
  • May/23/24 2:40:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us get back to the case of the member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell. To prevent him from being sacked as chair of the association des parlementaires de la francophonie, the Liberals infiltrated the organization. They signed up in droves, swelling the number of Liberals from 25 to 112, including a whole bunch of unilingual anglophones. For the first time, the APF had to send out an agenda in English. It even had to bring in interpreters for the unilingual English-speaking Liberals suddenly enamoured with the French language. Do the Liberals realize that, in order to protect their colleagues in the APF, they are literally anglicizing it?
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Context: House Hansard - 316 - May/23/24
Mr. René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, BQ)
  • May/23/24 2:41:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the minister's correction. To protect a Liberal who denies the decline of French in Quebec, the Liberals are taking responsibility for the decline of the APF. I could not make this stuff up. That is not all they are responsible for, though. All those new French language enthusiasts at the APF must have read the report released by the Office québécois de la langue française yesterday. Guess which sector has the lowest proportion of workers using French most often in Quebec workplaces? The federal public service. The Liberals are the primary drivers of workplace anglicization in Quebec. When will they stop driving the decline of French?
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