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{
"time": "2011-03-22 12:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Christian Ouellet",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2411563\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I will answer the hon. member for <a data-HoCid=\"128250\" href=\"/politicians/michael-chong/\" title=\"Michael Chong\">Wellington\u2014Halton Hills</a> that it is not the rest of Canada that has protected French in Quebec, it is Quebec that has protected its French, and it is having a lot of trouble protecting it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2411564\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is obvious that we are having difficulty, even with the federal government, in selecting the immigrants who come to Quebec. I do not think that the federal government can congratulate itself right now for having preserved French in Quebec. It is Quebeckers who are protecting their French and their culture. Furthermore, to add to what I have just said, democracy depends on the moral weight of the nation and not on the weight of numbers.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2411563\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je r\u00e9pondrai au d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"128250\" href=\"/politicians/michael-chong/\" title=\"Michael Chong\">Wellington\u2014Halton Hills</a> que ce n'est pas le reste du Canada qui a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 le fran\u00e7ais au Qu\u00e9bec, c'est le Qu\u00e9bec qui a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 son fran\u00e7ais, et il a beaucoup de difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 le prot\u00e9ger.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2411564\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il est \u00e9vident qu'on a de la difficult\u00e9, m\u00eame avec le f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, \u00e0 choisir les immigrants qui viennent chez nous. Je ne pense pas que le f\u00e9d\u00e9ral puisse actuellement se f\u00e9liciter d'avoir conserv\u00e9 le fran\u00e7ais au Qu\u00e9bec. Ce sont les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois qui prot\u00e8gent leur fran\u00e7ais et leur culture. En outre, et cela ajoute \u00e0 ce que je viens de dire, la d\u00e9mocratie tient par le poids moral de la nation et non pas par le poids du nombre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/3/22/christian-ouellet-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/christian-ouellet/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/529/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3818144",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Democratic Representation Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/3/22/",
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}
}