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Rhéal Éloi Fortin

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Rivière-du-Nord
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $105,330.31

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Context: House Hansard - 321 - May/30/24
Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)
  • May/30/24 2:58:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec's justice minister informed us in March that there had been 109 stays of proceedings for unreasonable delays in Quebec alone last year. How can we expect the public to have confidence in our justice system when the course of justice is being impeded? We have been sounding the alarm for years now about this government's careless attitude when it comes to appointing judges. There is still a shortage of nearly 60 judges, and it is a recurring problem. Does the Minister of Justice think it is acceptable for trials to be cancelled because he did not bother to appoint judges?
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Context: House Hansard - 278 - Feb/8/24
Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)
  • Feb/8/24 2:56:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, French is hanging by a thread in Canada. We saw it again in committee. The Liberal parliamentary secretary, the Conservatives and the NDP all voted against bilingualism for the miscarriage of justice review commission. The Liberal member's pretext was that he was defending unilingual francophones. Give me a break. Francophones always lose when bilingualism takes a back seat. He added that he was defending anglophones. That I can believe. If justice is bilingual, if Canada is bilingual, why can the minister not commit to appointing bilingual commissioners?
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