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House Hansard - 276

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 6, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)
  • Feb/6/24 2:39:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, all three federalist parties voted against a bilingualism requirement for miscarriage of justice review commissioners. The Liberal parliamentary secretary and the NDP justified dropping the bilingualism requirement by saying it would stand in the way of hiring unilingual French-speaking commissioners. Frankly, unilingual francophones have never benefited from bilingualism taking a backseat, believe me. Are these parties really saying that it is impossible to find nine competent bilingual jurists out of 40 million Canadians?
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Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)
  • Feb/6/24 2:40:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary is not following his minister's instructions. Another excuse for giving up on bilingualism is that apparently it is too expensive. Yesterday, Radio‑Canada reported that it obtained a copy of a letter from the Privy Council announcing that it would take years and it would be very expensive to translate the documents produced for the Rouleau commission. It seems that the production of a simple index would cost too much too. This raises three questions for us. How much is bilingualism worth? How much is Canada prepared to pay for bilingualism? Most of all, have we ever heard anyone here complain about the cost of translation from French to English?
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