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House Hansard - 305

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 30, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Apr/30/24 4:58:52 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague a question, but I am not sure it is in her usual area of expertise. We know that 90% of the francophone minority in Canada lives in Quebec. Quebec is in a minority situation, and 96% of the funding allocated by the federal government to official languages is used to support English in Quebec. For the past two years, we have heard the Liberals boast about wanting to implement measures to protect the French language, but we see nothing in the budget, which contains no financial measures to protect French in Quebec, just like there were none in the action plan for official languages. What does my colleague think about that? Does she think it is fair that funding for official languages in Quebec is used almost exclusively to support English?
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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo
  • Apr/30/24 4:59:47 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, my riding of Port Moody—Coquitlam has the largest quartier of francophones in British Columbia. The executive director of Société francophone de Maillardville is Johanne Dumas. I want to raise my hands and thank her for all the work she has done, as she is now retiring, to try to get representation of francophones in Maillardville, trying to get some physical space. What I do not think is fair is that the government has been very lax in assisting those who move outside Quebec to keep their language, culture and community. It is very disappointing.
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