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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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Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)

Feb/8/24 2:57:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if that is true, then he will have to talk to his parliamentary secretary about it. As I was saying, French is hanging by a thread in Canada, even in the Prime Minister's Office. Radio-Canada reported that it obtained a copy of a letter from the Privy Council indicating that it would take too long and cost too much to translate the documents produced for the Rouleau commission. Even providing a simple index would take too long and cost too much. It seems as though they just did not want to do it and that the rights of francophones are only important when respecting them is easy and does not cost anything. Will the Prime Minister remind his own department that respect for French is mandatory?

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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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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 - 38 - Mar/1/22

Mr. Rhéal Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)

Mar/1/22 12:22:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I wholeheartedly agree with my colleague. I have been listening to my colleagues in the NDP say that we need to give more consideration to francophones outside Quebec and that the Bloc Québécois does not do that. I do not think that is true. On the contrary, I think that it is at the heart of the Bloc Québécois's agenda, since we have always been concerned about the diversity of all francophones in North America. Would my colleague not agree with me that a strong Quebec, a francophone Quebec nation recognized as such and protected within the Canadian federation, would help these francophone minorities that are not given the weight they deserve in Canada as a whole? The anglophone minorities in Quebec are well protected. However, the same cannot be said for the francophone minorities in western Canada. The Bloc Québécois knows this and has often stood in the House to say so. In my colleague's opinion, is the recognition that the Bloc Québécois is asking for today not a way of strengthening the influence of francophone communities outside Quebec?

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