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House Hansard - 335

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 19, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Jun/19/24 2:29:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, according to Canada Post, employees do not need to speak French to deliver or sort mail in Quebec. The reason given is that letter carriers do not talk to anyone, not even the dogs chasing them, not at the post office, not on the street, not at people's homes, never. Will the Prime Minister call Canada Post to order and demand that its employees in Quebec speak French?
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Jun/19/24 2:29:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our government has always been there to defend official languages in Canada. We were the first federal government to recognize that we have a special responsibility to protect French, including in Quebec. That is why we will continue to ensure that the Official Languages Act is respected across the country, including in federal institutions like Canada Post. We will follow up on this issue, because it is important that we continue to defend our two official languages across Canada.
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Jun/19/24 2:30:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to French, the Liberal government is a false advertiser. In public, with their grand gestures and ridiculous rhetoric, more reminiscent of Molière than Shakespeare, the Liberals love the French language, save for a few outliers in Montreal. The truth is that the government is looking on as French declines everywhere, all the time, yet it invests in protecting English. Does the Prime Minister recognize that his policies are causing French to decline?
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Jun/19/24 2:31:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Bloc Québécois is constantly trying to pick fights over identity issues. The truth is that no previous federal government has done more than we have to protect and support official languages across the country, including to protect French in Quebec. We will always be there to defend official languages, and we will always be there to defend linguistic minorities. I know that the Bloc Québécois cares nothing about francophone communities in Canada outside Quebec, but we will be there for the official languages across the country.
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Jun/19/24 2:43:36 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I know that, for many years, the Government of Quebec has had very good representatives in Washington and elsewhere in the world to talk about issues relating to its provincial laws. At the same time, as a bilingual country that protects French and English within its borders, we will continue to be there during negotiations—as we were during the renegotiation of NAFTA several years ago with the American government—to protect Canada's culture and linguistic reality as well as the distinct character of our citizens from coast to coast to coast.
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)
  • Jun/19/24 2:44:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he is allergic to the simple word “yes”. We can see it: The inability to ensure that the number of immigrants Quebec so generously welcomes learn French, the decline of French in the Canadian public service, the unilingual English federally regulated employees in Quebec, the protection given a member who insults researchers duly invited to Parliament, all the money for protecting so-called minority languages in Canada sent to anglophones in Quebec, and the funds spent on fighting Bill 96 all the way to the Supreme Court. Does the Prime Minister realize that francophones in Quebec and Canada—and we might be their only friends—are wondering if French even has a future here?
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Jun/19/24 2:44:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that the leader of the Bloc Québécois is always looking to pick a fight. I would remind him that there are more Quebeckers in our Liberal caucus than in his Bloc Québécois caucus and that we will always stand up for French both in Quebec and across the country. We will be there to invest hundreds of millions of dollars for Quebec, for ensuring that newcomers learn French. We will continue to defend French from coast to coast to coast, with a special focus on Quebec, because we know that Quebec must remain French, first and foremost, and we are there to support it.
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