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Martin Champoux

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
Bloc Québécois

Drummond
Quebec
Voting Attendance: 68%
Expenses Last Quarter: $108,134.67

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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

May/24/24 11:55:49 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it would be really nice if we could get serious answers to serious questions. It is disturbing that the government refuses to require the court challenges program to comply with this federal law, its own statute. Once again, the Liberals are entangled in their own contradictions about the French language. They still have a hard time recognizing that there is only one official language at risk in Quebec, and that is French. They refuse to require that the court challenges program comply with their own legislation, the Official Languages Act. Why should the program disregard the different situation of English and French in Canada and Quebec?

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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)

May/24/24 11:54:39 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in committee yesterday, as the members were studying an overhaul of the court challenges program, a Bloc Québécois amendment was rejected, which is appalling. It was a very simple amendment that called for just one thing: That the court challenges program respect the Official Languages Act, that it respect the law recognizing that French is under threat, that it recognize the existence of other laws, such as the Charter of the French Language in order to protect our language, and that it recognize the need to advance the existence of a majority-French society in Quebec. Why is it so hard for the Liberals to respect the Official Languages Act?

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Context: House Hansard - 316 - May/23/24

Mr. Martin Champoux

May/23/24 10:04:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I will keep an open mind and hope to be surprised. It is a far cry from the attitude and approach we saw from Meta during our most recent legislative efforts. In October 2021, the Commissioner of Official Languages, Raymond Théberge, responded to a complaint by a Montreal lawyer asking for translations of Supreme Court rulings handed down prior to 1970. The recommendation was brought to the attention of the Supreme Court, which has yet to take action. The court did not follow up on the Commissioner of Official Languages' recommendations. Will the minister commit to provide the Supreme Court of Canada with the resources to translate its pre-1970 decisions?

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Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24

Mr. Martin Champoux

May/8/24 6:51:50 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order. There is a lot of talk about unparliamentary language. My colleague has every reason to be offended by your mistake.

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Context: House Hansard - 37 - Feb/28/22

Mr. Martin Champoux

Feb/28/22 6:15:05 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Kitchener—Conestoga for his question. Following our discussion this afternoon, I thought he might ask his question in French, but maybe next time. Amendments were debated and voted on last year when the House was studying Bill C‑10. I was pleasantly surprised to see those amendments as clauses here in Bill C‑11. There are indeed provisions designed to promote the use of official languages by broadcasters, online or otherwise. It is indeed very important to promote minority cultural communities and indigenous cultures. In fact, I am absolutely delighted to see that the latter are becoming much easier to discover in various media and it is well worth doing so. That is yet another example of why it is so important for us to make the rules ourselves and apply them to foreign companies with a digital presence here.

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