{"time": "2007-12-06 09:40:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Mauril B\u00e9langer (Ottawa\u2014Vanier, Lib.)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"949595\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Semianiw, Monsieur Gosselin, allow me to be pessimistic, because as associate minister of defence at one point, I was responsible for these files and I'm very disappointed that the military has abandoned the course that we'd set back then to do much less.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"949596\" data-originallang=\"en\">To follow up a bit on Monsieur Nadeau's questions, in 1967 we did the <em>bilinguisme et le biculturalisme</em> commission, and in 1969 we in this country approved in Parliament an Official Languages Act. I want to know this. Is National Defence subject to that act, sir?</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"949595\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Semianiw, monsieur Gosselin, permettez-moi d'\u00eatre pessimiste, parce qu'en qualit\u00e9 de ministre adjoint \u00e0 la D\u00e9fense \u00e0 un moment donn\u00e9, j'\u00e9tais charg\u00e9 de ces dossiers et je suis tr\u00e8s d\u00e9\u00e7u que l'arm\u00e9e ait abandonn\u00e9 la voie qu'elle s'\u00e9tait fix\u00e9e \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque pour faire beaucoup moins.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"949596\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le m\u00eame ordre d'id\u00e9es que les questions de M. Nadeau, en 1967, nous avons eu la commission sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme, et en 1969, le Parlement de ce pays a approuv\u00e9 la Loi sur les langues officielles. Ce que j'aimerais savoir, monsieur, c'est si la D\u00e9fense nationale est assujettie \u00e0 cette loi?</p>"}, "url": "/committees/official-languages/39-2/8/mauril-belanger-1/", "politician_url": "/politicians/mauril-belanger/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3687/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "2251128", "document_url": "/committees/official-languages/39-2/8/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fofficial-languages%2F39-2%2F8%2F"}}