Hon. Jean-Guy Dagenais: Good afternoon, minister.

I find it hard to believe your government’s promises to ensure respect for the French language. Publicly, your Prime Minister and the Minister of Transport are up in arms about the fact that there are no francophones on CN’s board of directors, yet this is the same Prime Minister who appointed a Governor General who does not speak a word of French. This is also the same Prime Minister who appointed a unilingual anglophone Lieutenant-Governor in your own province, New Brunswick. He was just told by the Court of Queen’s Bench that his choice was unconstitutional, but he has not yet fixed it.

How can you possibly defend such political inconsistency regarding the constitutional rights of francophones in this country and your province?