Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2022-02-14 16:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Darius Boss\u00e9 (Lawyer, Power Law)",
        "fr": "M. Darius Boss\u00e9 (avocat, Juristes Power)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6984365\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The day-to-day delays in implementing the modernization of the act obviously causes harm that may at some point become irreparable. Yes, that's unfortunately the case.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984366\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We had a chance to see the first version of an attempted modernization of the act at the end of the last Parliament. As my colleague noted, there were many problems with that version. We see now that the communities and organizations have joined forces to inform the government clearly what those problems are and how to solve them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984367\" data-originallang=\"fr\">For example, the Treasury Board's obligations must be more clearly established. Binding directives must be issued precisely to provide a framework for implementing the various parts of the act. The obligation to consult must be clarified. We now know that it's an obligation, as the Court of Appeal stated in its decision. It held that the government had breached its obligation and had to take the needs of the community into account, which it has not done.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984368\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> In the case of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique, the FFCB, the government was also required to adopt a linguistic clause under which it could intervene and ensure that the act was properly implemented by the province. In the Court of Appeal's view, however, that had not been done as the obligation to adopt linguistic clauses was not stated in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11420727\" href=\"/bills/43-2/C-32/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Official Languages Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201132</a>. These are the kinds of clarifications that the organizations and communities are asking the government to make in order to solve the problems in the next version of the bill to modernize the Official Languages Act. We hope that next version will be introduced shortly. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6984365\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est \u00e9vident que, de jour en jour, le retard dans la mise en \u0153uvre de la modernisation de la Loi cause des torts qui, \u00e0 un certain moment, deviennent irr\u00e9parables. Oui, malheureusement, c'est le cas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984366\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Nous avons eu la chance de voir la premi\u00e8re mouture d'une tentative de modernisation de la Loi \u00e0 la fin de la l\u00e9gislature pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente. Cette mouture, comme mon coll\u00e8gue l'a soulign\u00e9, pr\u00e9sentait beaucoup de probl\u00e8mes. Nous observons que les communaut\u00e9s et les organismes se sont mobilis\u00e9s pour indiquer tr\u00e8s clairement au gouvernement quels sont ces probl\u00e8mes et comment les r\u00e9gler.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984367\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Par exemple, il faut \u00e9tablir plus clairement les obligations du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor. Il faut donc \u00e9mettre des directives contraignantes afin d'encadrer, justement, la mise en \u0153uvre des diff\u00e9rentes parties de la Loi. Il faut pr\u00e9ciser l'obligation de consulter. On sait maintenant que c'est une obligation, la Cour d'appel l'ayant \u00e9nonc\u00e9 dans son jugement. Elle a dit que le gouvernement avait enfreint son obligation et devait prendre en compte les besoins de la communaut\u00e9, ce qu'il n'a pas fait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984368\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans le cas de la FFCB, soit la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des francophones de la Colombie\u2011Britannique, le gouvernement \u00e9tait \u00e9galement tenu d'adopter une disposition linguistique qui lui permettait d'intervenir et de s'assurer que la Loi \u00e9tait mise en \u0153uvre correctement par la province. Or, selon la Cour d'appel, cela n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 fait, l'obligation d'adopter des clauses linguistiques n'\u00e9tant pas \u00e9nonc\u00e9e dans le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11420727\" href=\"/bills/43-2/C-32/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Official Languages Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201132</a>. En ce moment, c'est ce genre de pr\u00e9cisions que les organismes et les communaut\u00e9s demandent au gouvernement d'apporter, afin de r\u00e9gler les probl\u00e8mes dans la prochaine version du projet de loi modernisant la Loi sur les langues officielles. Nous esp\u00e9rons que cette prochaine version sera d\u00e9pos\u00e9e sous peu.</p>"
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