You mentioned the issue of national unity at the start of your presentation. It is a very important subject we think about often. We can all see what is happening across the country, and we frankly believe that if francophone citizens and their rights were respected, and if they were treated the same way as anglophone citizens, we would not have a national unity problem. Of course, we have problems with the economy and with our multinationals, but that's another debate.
\nThe situation would also be better if our politicians, regardless of where they are, which party they belong to or the language they speak, since this happens everywhere\u2014did not keep on talking about the phenomenon of marginalization. They say that there is only a handfull of francophones here and there, and that it is nothing we should worry about; they adopt a defeatist attitude when they say that francophones have almost completely disappeared. They are throwing in the towel even before the end of the game. This is a very human attitude, but we would expect more from our parliamentarians. In short, if this attitude did not exist, it would be much easier to fix our national problem.
", "fr": "Vous avez mentionn\u00e9 la question de l'unit\u00e9 nationale au d\u00e9but de votre intervention. C'est un point tr\u00e8s important auquel on r\u00e9fl\u00e9chit souvent. On est t\u00e9moins de ce qui se passe \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle du pays, et on pense franchement que si les citoyens francophones et leurs droits \u00e9taient respect\u00e9s et qu'ils obtenaient un traitement \u00e9gal \u00e0 celui des citoyens anglophones, il n'y aurait pas de probl\u00e8me d'unit\u00e9 nationale. Bien s\u00fbr, il y a des probl\u00e8mes impliquant le domaine \u00e9conomique et nos multinationales, mais il s'agit l\u00e0 d'un autre d\u00e9bat.
\nLes choses iraient mieux \u00e9galement s'il n'y avait pas parmi nos politiciens, peu importe le lieu, le parti ou la langue, vu que \u00e7a se passe partout, ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de marginalisation continuelle. Ils se disent qu'il n'y a qu'une poign\u00e9e de francophones ici et l\u00e0 et qu'il ne faut pas s'en inqui\u00e9ter, ou font preuve de d\u00e9faitisme en se disant que les francophones ont presque enti\u00e8rement disparu. Ils enterrent la b\u00eate avant m\u00eame qu'elle soit morte. Ces attitudes sont humaines, mais on s'attend \u00e0 autre chose de la part de nos parlementaires. Bref, sans ces attitudes, il serait beaucoup plus facile de r\u00e9soudre notre probl\u00e8me national.
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