{"time": "2013-04-25 16:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Stephen Thompson (Director, Policy, Research and Public Affairs, Quebec Community Groups Network)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3315150\" data-originallang=\"en\">We can take the Canada-Quebec agreement on health as an example. Part of the money that's provided is for a project that's run out of McGill University, which provides English language training to francophone health professionals.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3315151\" data-originallang=\"en\">You may know that Quebec recently abandoned the idea of having intensive English in French schools. It was largely an HR issue. They didn't have the English teachers to do it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3315152\" data-originallang=\"en\">If federal money were provided to help train English teachers for the French system, that might be something the federal government could do, but that's not the English-speaking community talking there.</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3315150\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un exemple serait l'accord Canada-Qu\u00e9bec sur la sant\u00e9. Une partie de l'argent fourni va dans un projet, issu de l'Universit\u00e9 McGill, de formation en anglais des professionnels francophones de la sant\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3315151\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous savez peut-\u00eatre que le Qu\u00e9bec vient d'abandonner l'id\u00e9e de donner des cours d'anglais intensifs dans les \u00e9coles fran\u00e7aises. C'est en grande partie \u00e0 cause d'un probl\u00e8me de ressources humaines. Il n'avait pas le nombre d'enseignants pour le faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3315152\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral pourrait aider \u00e0 financer la formation d'enseignants d'anglais pour le syst\u00e8me fran\u00e7ais, il pourrait le faire. Mais ce n'est pas l'avis de la communaut\u00e9 anglophone.</p>"}, "url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/77/stephen-thompson-1/", "politician_url": null, "politician_membership_url": null, "procedural": false, "source_id": "7982924", "document_url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/77/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fofficial-languages%2F41-1%2F77%2F"}}