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{
"time": "2020-10-01 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. M\u00e9lanie Joly (Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. M\u00e9lanie Joly (ministre du D\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique et des Langues officielles, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6273348\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I do not want to give my colleague a history lesson, but the Official Languages Act was adopted 51 years ago by a government headed by a certain Mr. Trudeau, following the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission, which advocated for official bilingualism.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273349\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Furthermore, every budget cut over the past few decades has come from provincial or federal Conservative governments.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273350\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Under the current circumstances, I have a question for the <a data-HoCid=\"263838\" href=\"/politicians/erin-otoole/\" title=\"Erin O'Toole\">Leader of the Opposition</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273351\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Will the Leader of the Opposition speak out against the budget cuts that are currently harming Franco-Albertans and Campus Saint-Jean in Alberta?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6273348\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je ne veux pas donner de cours d'histoire \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue, mais la Loi sur les langues officielles a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e il y a 51 ans par un certain gouvernement Trudeau de l'\u00e9poque, \u00e0 la suite de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton, qui militait pour le bilinguisme officiel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273349\" data-originallang=\"fr\">De plus, au cours des derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, chaque fois qu'il y a eu des compressions budg\u00e9taires, ce sont les gouvernements conservateurs provinciaux ou f\u00e9d\u00e9raux qui les ont faites.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273350\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans les circonstances actuelles, j'aimerais poser une question au <a data-HoCid=\"263838\" href=\"/politicians/erin-otoole/\" title=\"Erin O'Toole\">chef de l\u2019opposition</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273351\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le chef de l'opposition va-t-il d\u00e9noncer les compressions budg\u00e9taires qui ont lieu pr\u00e9sentement \u00e0 l'encontre des Franco-Albertains et du Campus Saint-Jean, en Alberta?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/10/1/melanie-joly-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/melanie-joly/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4365/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10938866",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Official Languages",
"fr": "Les langues officielles"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/10/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F10%2F1%2F"
}
}