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{
"time": "2012-05-10 14:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pierre Dionne Labelle (Rivi\u00e8re-du-Nord, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Pierre Dionne Labelle (Rivi\u00e8re-du-Nord, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2846631\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170238\" href=\"/politicians/jacques-gourde/\" title=\"Jacques Gourde\">Lotbini\u00e8re\u2014Chutes-de-la-Chaudi\u00e8re</a> had the gall to say that \u201cthe orange wave is causing French to disappear from this House\u201d and that \u201call the NDP MPs from Quebec...ask half their questions in English.\u201d </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2846632\" data-originallang=\"fr\">What a grotesque, ridiculous and false statement. We know how much the Conservatives hate facts. This statement is another example of that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2846633\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Since the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170208\" href=\"/politicians/thomas-mulcair/\" title=\"Thomas Mulcair\">Outremont</a> was elected as the leader of the NDP, Quebec members have asked only 17 of a total of 185 questions, or 6%, in English. However, 60% of the questions asked in French by our Quebec members have been answered in English. So much for a government that says it wants to protect the French fact.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2846634\" data-originallang=\"fr\">When the Conservatives utter such nonsense, we can see why Quebeckers chose the NDP a year ago to represent them and defend their interests and to give every Quebecker a voice in Parliament.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2846631\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"170238\" href=\"/politicians/jacques-gourde/\" title=\"Jacques Gourde\">Lotbini\u00e8re\u2014Chutes-de-la-Chaudi\u00e8re</a> a eu le culot de d\u00e9clarer que \u00ab la vague orange est en train de faire dispara\u00eetre le fran\u00e7ais en cette Chambre \u00bb, et que \u00ab l'ensemble des d\u00e9put\u00e9s n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates du Qu\u00e9bec [\u2026] pose[nt] la moiti\u00e9 de leurs questions en anglais. \u00bb </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2846632\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quelle affirmation erron\u00e9e, carr\u00e9ment grotesque et ridicule. On sait \u00e0 quel point les conservateurs d\u00e9testent se fier aux faits. Cette d\u00e9claration en est un autre bel exemple.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2846633\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Depuis l'\u00e9lection du d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'<a data-HoCid=\"170208\" href=\"/politicians/thomas-mulcair/\" title=\"Thomas Mulcair\">Outremont</a> \u00e0 la t\u00eate du NPD, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois ont pos\u00e9 seulement 17 questions en anglais sur un total de 185, soit 6 p. 100. Par contre, on a r\u00e9pondu en anglais \u00e0 60 p. 100 des questions pos\u00e9es en fran\u00e7ais par nos d\u00e9put\u00e9s qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois. Pour un gouvernement qui dit vouloir prot\u00e9ger le fait fran\u00e7ais, on repassera.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2846634\" data-originallang=\"fr\">\u00c0 entendre les d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs radoter de telles sottises, on comprend pourquoi, il y a un an, c'est au NPD que les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois et les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises ont fait confiance pour les repr\u00e9senter et d\u00e9fendre leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats, et pour que tous les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois et Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises puissent se faire entendre au Parlement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/5/10/pierre-dionne-labelle-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-dionne-labelle/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4144/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7576355",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "French Language",
"fr": "La langue fran\u00e7aise"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/5/10/",
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}
}