Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1994-03-23 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jean-Marc Jacob (Charlesbourg)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the Commissioner of Official Languages has intervened personally at the Department of National Defence to ensure that francophones who have lost their job have access in their language to career renewal and reclassification courses at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. As it happens, the person in charge of this service for the past six years is a unilingual anglophone.</p>\n<p>My question is for the Minister of National Defence. How can the minister, an unswerving defender of francophone rights in our Armed Forces, tolerate this kind of situation? What action does he plan to take to ensure that francophones, who account for roughly 30 per cent of staff at headquarters, have access to the same services as anglophones?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1994/3/23/jean-marc-jacob-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/7817/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3269/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Official Languages",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1994/3/23/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1994%2F3%2F23%2F"
    }
}