Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1996-04-22 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jean-Paul Marchand (Qu\u00e9bec-Est, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the federal government has interfered in provincial matters frequently and on a number of issues, but the minister is denying the assimilation of francophones in Canada in her response, and no one dare deny this assimilation when it is occurring at the rate of 30 per cent in the Canada's capital.</p>\n<p>We must have francophone schools, but Sainte-Anne is closing. It is a fact that English predominates in the federal public service. Francophones must use English in the public service.</p>\n<p>Will the minister acknowledge that her government is therefore practicing a policy of assimilation leading to the disappearance of the francophone community in the heart of the nation's capital?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/4/22/jean-paul-marchand-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/5178/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3307/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Francophones Outside Quebec",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/4/22/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F4%2F22%2F"
    }
}