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Minister of Veterans Affairs Associate Minister of National Defence

Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor

  • Member of Parliament
  • Minister of Veterans Affairs Associate Minister of National Defence
  • Liberal
  • Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe
  • New Brunswick
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $101,260.44

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Context: House Hansard - 76 - May/20/22
Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor
  • May/20/22 10:28:31 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Madam Speaker, I would like to once again thank my colleague who has been working in this field for several decades. I am extremely grateful to him for that and for the work that he does here in Ottawa as the chair of the official languages caucus. Positive measures are indeed a very important part of Bill C-13. The stakeholders we spoke to really wanted to see improvements in the definition and handling of positive measures compared to former Bill C-32. That is exactly what we did. We took care to closely examine every word and every comma in our new bill because we want to ensure that it will really help official language minority communities. We want the positive measures to be clearly defined, because they are a very important component.
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor (Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Lib.)
  • May/12/22 9:26:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Halifax West for her speech and her support for Bill C-13. I would also like to congratulate her for her work as a member of the official languages caucus and for what she achieved while she was the minister responsible for immigration and other portfolios in Nova Scotia. She is very familiar with the bill and understands full well the importance of modernizing the Official Languages Act. I would like to know if she can describe how this bill will benefit her province.
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor (Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Lib.)
  • May/12/22 8:27:49 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Madam Speaker, I would also like to take a moment to thank my colleague from Yukon for his outstanding work. As a member of the official languages caucus, I always enjoy his speeches. I sincerely thank him. As an Acadian who lives in an official language minority community in New Brunswick, if I was able to attend elementary and secondary school in French and go to the Université de Moncton, it is due in part to the Official Languages Act. I am wondering if the member for Yukon could talk a little more about the importance of implementing this bill. What will that change for Yukon's francophone community?
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