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House Hansard - 92

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 20, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Jun/20/22 2:56:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on Friday, the head of FrancoFolies de Montréal tried to justify the anglicization of his organization's workplace by saying that this promotes diversity and inclusion. That is absurd, but it is a shift we see all the time at the federal level. The official languages commissioner described this as backsliding. He explains that, on the contrary, the official languages and diversity are complementary, in that they are both ways of being more inclusive. Does the minister agree that it is backsliding to claim that French can be set aside to be more inclusive?
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Jun/20/22 2:58:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we need only look to the people at the top to see how French is presented as a barrier to diversity. The Prime Minister himself appointed a Governor General who does not speak French, and his government has gone to court to try to force New Brunswick to accept a Lieutenant Governor who does not speak French. He is the first to drop the French language in the name of diversity, as though French could not also be diverse. Does the minister support this shift to considering all forms of diversity to be more important than the French language?
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