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{
"time": "2007-05-14 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jean-Claude D'Amours (Madawaska\u2014Restigouche, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"620471\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, during the election campaign, the government promised to protect and promote official languages. However, its performance has been appalling. Indeed, the cancellation of the court challenges program, the watering down of the linguistic requirements in the Canadian Forces and the insulting translation done at the Vimy memorial are all evidence of the Conservatives' indifference. And now they are cancelling the meetings of the committee that was supposed to review the abolition of the court challenges program. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"620472\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Will, at last, the <a data-HoCid=\"78775\" href=\"/politicians/josee-verner/\" title=\"Jos\u00e9e Verner\">Minister for la Francophonie and Official Languages</a> assume her responsibilities and stop showing contempt for linguistic minorities? All we are asking her is to take her responsibilities.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"620471\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ce gouvernement avait promis en campagne \u00e9lectorale de prot\u00e9ger et de promouvoir les langues officielles: son bilan est carr\u00e9ment nul. L'\u00e9limination du Programme de contestation judiciaire, l'affaiblissement des exigences linguistiques dans les Forces canadiennes et l'insultante traduction sur le monument de Vimy d\u00e9montrent l'indiff\u00e9rence des conservateurs. Maintenant, ils annulent les r\u00e9unions du comit\u00e9 qui devait \u00e9tudier l'abolition du Programme de contestation judiciaire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"620472\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La <a data-HoCid=\"78775\" href=\"/politicians/josee-verner/\" title=\"Jos\u00e9e Verner\">ministre de la Francophonie et des Langues officielles</a> va-t-elle enfin prendre ses responsabilit\u00e9s et arr\u00eater de m\u00e9priser les minorit\u00e9s linguistiques? La seule chose qu'on lui demande, c'est de prendre ses responsabilit\u00e9s. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/14/jean-claude-damours-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jean-claude-damours/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1317/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2078740",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Official Languages",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/5/14/",
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}
}