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Deputy House leader of the Bloc Québécois

Christine Normandin

  • Member of Parliament
  • Deputy House leader of the Bloc Québécois
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Saint-Jean
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 64%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $109,900.56

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Context: House Hansard - 115 - Oct/21/22
Ms. Christine Normandin (Saint-Jean, BQ)
Madam Speaker, the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec spoke out against the government's source hunting. It fears that Ottawa is discouraging whistle-blowers when it should in fact be protecting them. It is concerned, and rightly so, because Canada has the weakest whistle-blower legislation in the world. According to the International Bar Association, Canada ranks 50th out of 50. That is why the Bloc Québécois has introduced Bill C‑290 to better protect public servants who blow the whistle. Will the government support our bill instead of basically going on a witch hunt trying to track down sources within its own ranks?
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Context: House Hansard - 115 - Oct/21/22
Ms. Christine Normandin (Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Oct/21/22 11:25:51 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, Radio-Canada is reporting that the federal government is hunting down journalistic sources in order to punish a whistle-blower. It wants to know who disclosed that the federal government was appointing a unilingual English speaker as CEO of the Canadian Museum of History. What the government should have done was take a hard look in the mirror and ask why it continues to make unilingual English appointments. No, instead it searched the emails and phone records of 82 employees to find out who had spoken out. Why is it that the government's problem is not the appointment of a unilingual person, but the fact that everyone knows about it?
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