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House Hansard - 73

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 17, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • May/17/22 2:39:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we recently saw a number of Liberal MPs protesting against Quebec's language laws and calling them discriminatory. However, the real discrimination is at the federal level, and francophones are the victims. Francophones are systematically under-represented in the federal public service, where anglophones hold 81% of the positions. At the very highest levels, everything is done in English. Interestingly, there are no Liberal MPs out in the streets condemning that. Why?
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • May/17/22 2:40:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this government appointed a unilingual anglophone as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, the only bilingual province in Canada. A New Brunswick court has ruled that this appointment is unconstitutional, but—surprise, surprise—the federal government has announced that it will be appealing the decision. The Liberals want to spend public money to preserve their right to make unilingual English appointments in Canada's only bilingual province. Instead of castigating Quebec, will the Liberal government stop its war against French?
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