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House Hansard - 254

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 23, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 254 - Nov/23/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Nov/23/23 2:30:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in its economic statement, the federal government seeks to encroach upon Quebec's jurisdiction over labour. It wants to force interprovincial mobility on workers, especially health care workers. Otherwise, it is cutting health care funding. It forgot one thing, though: Things are done in French in Quebec. For us, the plan means that bilingual workers from Quebec will be able to work elsewhere in Canada, but the workers who come to Quebec from unilingual anglophone provinces will be unilingual English doctors. In Quebec, things are done in French. This cannot work. Instead of undermining quality of care in Quebec, could the federal government just mind its own business?
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Context: House Hansard - 254 - Nov/23/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Nov/23/23 2:31:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is right there in black and white: The government is threatening to cut health transfers if we refuse to swap our francophone workers for unilingual English doctors. Quebec does not need unilingual English doctors. We need doctors who can speak French and provide care in French. We need doctors that Quebeckers can explain their health problems to in their own language. If the federal government wants to be useful, all it has to do is increase health transfers, and we will hire doctors. Will the government stop taking Quebeckers' money and blackmailing them? Enough is enough.
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