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{
"time": "2019-02-06 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. R\u00e9mi Mass\u00e9 (Avignon\u2014La Mitis\u2014Matane\u2014Matap\u00e9dia, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. R\u00e9mi Mass\u00e9 (Avignon\u2014La Mitis\u2014Matane\u2014Matap\u00e9dia, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5763801\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, we will never apologize for speaking French in the House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763802\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I want to remind my colleagues that the first French words were heard in the new continent when Jacques Cartier set foot in Gasp\u00e9 and met the Mi'kmaq nation in July 1534 .</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763803\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Our language is a living language here and around the world. The Francophonie has 90 member states representing 284 million individuals who speak French. French is a vibrant language, it is a beautiful language, it is our language and the language of both our ancestors and our children. It represents and defines who we are as a country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763804\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Franco-Ontarians have been attacked by the Ford government, and the Conservatives opposite criticized my colleague yesterday for speaking French in the House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763805\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We will never apologize for speaking French. I am proud of my language and my culture, and I am proud to be part of a government that defends the French language.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5763801\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous ne nous excuserons jamais de nous exprimer en fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763802\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Je rappelle \u00e0 mes coll\u00e8gues que c\u2019est en juillet 1534, lorsque Jacques Cartier a mis pied \u00e0 terre \u00e0 Gasp\u00e9, \u00e0 la rencontre de la nation micmaque, que les premiers mots fran\u00e7ais furent entendus sur le nouveau continent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763803\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Notre langue, elle est vivante, ici comme ailleurs, avec pr\u00e8s de 90 \u00c9tats membres de la Francophonie repr\u00e9sentant 284 millions d\u2019individus parlant fran\u00e7ais. Le fran\u00e7ais est une langue vivante, c\u2019est une belle langue, c\u2019est notre langue, c\u2019est la langue de nos anc\u00eatres et la langue de nos enfants. Elle repr\u00e9sente et d\u00e9finit ce que nous sommes comme pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763804\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les Franco-Ontariens sont frapp\u00e9s de plein fouet par le gouvernement Ford, et hier, les conservateurs d'en face ont reproch\u00e9 \u00e0 ma coll\u00e8gue de r\u00e9pondre en fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5763805\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Nous ne nous excuserons jamais de nous exprimer en fran\u00e7ais. Je suis fier de ma langue, je suis fier de ma culture et je suis fier de faire partie d\u2019un gouvernement qui la d\u00e9fend.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/2/6/remi-masse-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/remi-masse/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4334/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10477197",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "French Language",
"fr": "La langue fran\u00e7aise"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/2/6/",
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}
}