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House Hansard - 78

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 31, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 78 - May/31/22
Mr. Alain Therrien
  • May/31/22 10:40:56 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question and her effort to speak French. It is wonderful. Perhaps I was not clear. Whenever my students did not understand something I had said, I would never tell them that they had misunderstood. I would say that I had misspoken. I never said that we need to maintain the barriers that women face when trying to teach or do research. On the contrary, I want to break down these barriers. Women make up half of Quebec's population. There should be no barriers to entry for students, regardless of the type of barrier. I have three daughters, and I do everything I can to make sure that they do not put any barriers in their way to do what they want to do in life. I work very hard on that. I raise my children to know that there are no barriers to their ambition, and I would like to see that everywhere.
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Context: House Hansard - 78 - May/31/22
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice
  • May/31/22 11:45:15 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his pleasant question. I need only give him the Université de Moncton as an example, where the majority of students have been women for years now. We learned recently that in the Université de Moncton's faculty of science, women make up barely 15% of the faculty.
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Context: House Hansard - 78 - May/31/22
Mr. Luc Desilets (Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, BQ)
  • May/31/22 1:50:31 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I get the impression that there was a very superficial or cursory reading of this bill. Our motion is absolutely not about discrimination. We are all in favour of equity, diversity and inclusion. I would ask my colleague, who focused on women in her speech, which is great since we would all like there to be more women, what she thinks about the fact that, right now, 70% of the medical students at the Université de Montréal are women. Should there be criteria for reducing the number of female medical students at the Université de Montréal?
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