Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2022-02-14 16:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Mark Power",
        "fr": "M. Mark Power"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6984290\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The best way to protect French using the Official Languages Act, whether in Ottawa, Vancouver, New Brunswick, Quebec City, Montreal or L\u00e9vis, is to make a central agency such as the Treasury Board responsible for administering the act.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984291\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Right now, no one is responsible. No one puts his foot down. No one in cabinet pounds the table when necessary. No one is requiring any federal department to adopt a certain type of conduct.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984292\" data-originallang=\"fr\">If the Treasury Board becomes responsible for administering the act and compels colleagues and the departments to take action, that will definitely help solve many problems, whether it be signage or the possibility of travelling across Canada in French, whether in Gatineau or Bagotville.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984293\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would ask you please to turn to page 105 in bookmark B of the briefing book. There you will see that 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> would have enabled the Treasury Board to take certain actions to promote French but that it requires nothing significant. On page 107, the bill provides that Treasury Board would be required to monitor, audit and evaluate, among other things.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984294\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We need more than that.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6984290\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La meilleure fa\u00e7on de prot\u00e9ger le fran\u00e7ais au moyen de la Loi sur les langues officielles, que ce soit \u00e0 Ottawa, \u00e0 Vancouver, au Nouveau\u2011Brunswick, \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec, \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al ou \u00e0 L\u00e9vis, c'est de faire en sorte, une fois pour toutes, qu'une agence centrale, comme le Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor, soit responsable de l'application de la Loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984291\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En ce moment, personne n'est responsable. Personne ne met son pied \u00e0 terre. Au Conseil des ministres, personne ne frappe la table du poing quand c'est n\u00e9cessaire. Personne n'exige qu'un minist\u00e8re f\u00e9d\u00e9ral quelconque adopte une certaine conduite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984292\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Si le Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor devient responsable de l'application de la Loi et qu'il contraint ses coll\u00e8gues des minist\u00e8res \u00e0 agir, cela va certainement permettre de r\u00e9gler plusieurs probl\u00e8mes, qu'il s'agisse d'affichage ou de la possibilit\u00e9 de travailler en fran\u00e7ais partout au Canada, que ce soit \u00e0 Gatineau ou \u00e0 Bagotville.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984293\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vous demanderais de consulter le cahier d'information, au signet B qui figure \u00e0 la page 108. On y montre que 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> aurait permis au Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor de faire certaines choses pour promouvoir le fran\u00e7ais, mais qu'il n'exige rien d'important. \u00c0 la page 109, on indique que, ce qui serait exig\u00e9 du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor, ce serait de faire de la surveillance, de la v\u00e9rification et de l'\u00e9valuation, entre autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6984294\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il faut plus que cela.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/official-languages/44-1/6/mark-power-3/",
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    "source_id": "11520521",
    "document_url": "/committees/official-languages/44-1/6/",
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