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House Hansard - 321

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 321 - May/30/24
Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • May/30/24 2:42:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec's French language commissioner is sounding the alarm. Quebec is unable to ensure that such a high number of immigrants learn French. It is well and good to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, but there are currently 642,000 people in Quebec who do not speak French. Only 70,000 of them have been able to join French language classes, which is a record, but that is nowhere near enough. When will the federal government ensure that asylum seekers are spread out among the provinces and temporarily reduce immigration in collaboration with the Government of Quebec?
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Context: House Hansard - 321 - May/30/24
Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • May/30/24 2:43:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals themselves do not respect Bill 101. Quebec's French language commissioner is clear. There are currently 20,000 people coming to Quebec every month who need French classes. Only 8,000 of them register with Francisation Québec, which cannot keep up. We simply cannot maintain our current immigration levels without weakening the French language in Quebec. In fact, that is the purely mathematical observation of Quebec's French language commissioner. Will the federal government finally respect Quebec's integration capacity?
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