Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2020-03-10 16:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ren\u00e9 Arseneault (Madawaska\u2014Restigouche, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Ren\u00e9 Arseneault (Madawaska\u2014Restigouche, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6107890\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107891\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is true that we invited the cream of the crop to our first formal meeting. The bar has been set very high. You couldn't have been any clearer. I prepared some questions, but your presentations were so informative that I'm going to ask other questions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107892\" data-originallang=\"fr\">First, when it comes to the enumeration of rights holders under section 23, you pointed out that, for 38 years, we've been neglecting the two-thirds of children who could have potentially attended French-language elementary, intermediate, secondary and post-secondary schools all over the country where services were available. We've ignored them, turned our backs on them. That's the message you conveyed to us.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107893\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Second, let's consider the short-form census versus the long-form census. We all understand quite well now the absolute importance of knocking on every single door and getting the form to every community member in Canada so we can ascertain where they are, geographically speaking. I believe that was your message. Not only is it important to know how many francophones there are in Canada\u2014or anglophones in Quebec\u2014but it is also important to know where they live, because that's what will show whether the numbers warrant services or not.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107894\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Can you speak in more detail about the shift in Canada's francophone community? There's been a lot of movement since I was young. The community isn't necessarily where you'd expect to find it today. When I was young, there were typical well-established French-speaking households, but now I'm seeing that some francophone households have moved. Figuring out francophones' geographic location is important.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107895\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In what way is that important to you? How does all that tie in to the short form census?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6107890\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107891\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il est vrai que nous avons convoqu\u00e9 la cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me \u00e0 notre premi\u00e8re rencontre officielle. La barre est vraiment haute. Vous n'auriez pas pu \u00eatre plus clairs. J'avais pr\u00e9par\u00e9 des questions, mais vos pr\u00e9sentations \u00e9taient tellement claires que je vais poser d'autres questions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107892\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Premi\u00e8rement, en ce qui concerne le d\u00e9nombrement des ayants droit en vertu de l'article 23, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que, pendant 38 ans, nous avons n\u00e9glig\u00e9 les deux tiers des enfants qui pouvaient potentiellement aller \u00e0 l'\u00e9cole primaire, \u00e0 l'\u00e9cole interm\u00e9diaire, au secondaire et, par la suite, aux \u00e9tablissements postsecondaires en fran\u00e7ais partout o\u00f9 les services existent au Canada. Nous les avons laiss\u00e9s aller et nous les avons abandonn\u00e9s. C'est le message que vous nous avez donn\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107893\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, abordons la question du formulaire court par opposition au formulaire long. Nous avons tous bien compris qu'il faut absolument frapper \u00e0 chaque porte et que chacun obtienne ce formulaire, au Canada, pour que nous puissions d\u00e9terminer o\u00f9 ils sont, g\u00e9ographiquement parlant. Je pense que c'\u00e9tait l\u00e0 votre message. Il est non seulement question de savoir combien il y a de francophones ou d'anglophones au Qu\u00e9bec, mais o\u00f9 ils se situent, parce que c'est ce qui permettra de soutenir que le nombre justifie ou non les services.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107894\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pouvez-vous offrir des pr\u00e9cisions sur cette mouvance de la francophonie au Canada? Elle s'est d\u00e9plac\u00e9e beaucoup depuis ma jeunesse. On ne la retrouve pas n\u00e9cessairement l\u00e0 o\u00f9 on le penserait aujourd'hui. Il y avait des foyers francophones typiques et solides quand j'\u00e9tais jeune, mais je vois aujourd'hui que certains foyers francophones ont d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9. Il faut d\u00e9terminer o\u00f9 se trouvent g\u00e9ographiquement les francophones.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6107895\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> De quelle fa\u00e7on est-ce important pour vous? Quelle est la relation entre tout cela et le formulaire court?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/official-languages/43-1/3/rene-arseneault-1/",
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