Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2022-05-12 19:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'\u00cele, BQ)",
        "fr": "M. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'\u00cele, BQ)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7147909\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I am rather pleasantly surprised by my colleague's speech. I am addressing my comments to him as a Quebecker because the Official Languages Act is likely the biggest impediment to the application of Bill 101 and to French as a common language in Quebec.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147910\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I will give an example. The Official Languages Act is based on the concept of an anglophone minority, when anglophones in Quebec are actually part of the English Canadian majority. I am not the only one saying that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147911\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The United Nations Human Rights Committee rendered the following decision in 1993, and I quote:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7147912\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> A group may constitute a majority in a province [French Quebec, for example] but still be a minority in a State and thus be entitled to the benefits of article 27. English speaking citizens of Canada cannot be considered a linguistic minority. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7147913\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The so-called \u201cpositive\u201d measures under Part VII of the act translate into roughly $100 million in funding dedicated exclusively to strengthening English in Quebec, funding for English schools that are entitled to the same funding as French schools but that also get additional funding. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147914\" data-originallang=\"fr\">All of the organizations that spend their time saying or implying that Quebeckers are racist because they want to live in French are funded by the federal government. That includes the Quebec Community Groups Network. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147915\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to know what my colleague thinks about that. Should the federal government continue to dedicate 100% of funding for official languages in Quebec to English communities?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7147909\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis assez agr\u00e9ablement surpris par l'intervention de mon coll\u00e8gue. Je m'adresse \u00e0 lui en tant que Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, parce que, la Loi sur les langues officielles, c'est probablement l'adversaire le plus acharn\u00e9 de l'application de la loi 101 et du fran\u00e7ais langue commune au Qu\u00e9bec.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147910\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vais donner un exemple. Toute la Loi sur les langues officielles est fond\u00e9e sur le concept de minorit\u00e9 anglophone, alors que les anglophones au Qu\u00e9bec font partie de la majorit\u00e9 canadienne-anglaise. Je ne suis pas le seul \u00e0 le dire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147911\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Une d\u00e9cision a \u00e9t\u00e9 rendue en 1993 par le Comit\u00e9 des droits de l'homme des Nations unies:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7147912\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Un groupe peut \u00eatre majoritaire dans une province [le Qu\u00e9bec fran\u00e7ais, par exemple] mais n\u00e9anmoins constituer une minorit\u00e9 dans l'\u00c9tat, et par cons\u00e9quent \u00eatre prot\u00e9g\u00e9 par l'article 27. Les citoyens canadiens anglophones ne peuvent \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme une minorit\u00e9 linguistique. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7147913\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Toutes les mesures que l'on appelle \u00ab positives \u00bb en vertu de la partie VII de la Loi, ce sont \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s 100 millions de dollars qui sont exclusivement investis pour renforcer l'anglais au Qu\u00e9bec, c'est-\u00e0-dire les \u00e9coles anglophones, qui ont droit au m\u00eame financement que les \u00e9coles francophones, mais qui re\u00e7oivent un financement suppl\u00e9mentaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147914\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Tous les organismes, comme le Quebec Community Groups Network, qui passent leur temps \u00e0 traiter les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois et \u00e0 sous-entendre qu'ils sont racistes parce qu'ils veulent vivre en fran\u00e7ais, sont financ\u00e9s par le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7147915\" data-originallang=\"fr\">J'aimerais savoir ce qu'en pense mon coll\u00e8gue. Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral devrait-il continuer \u00e0 consacrer 100 % du financement en mati\u00e8re de langues officielles au Qu\u00e9bec du c\u00f4t\u00e9 anglophone?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/5/12/mario-beaulieu-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/mario-beaulieu/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4426/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11684765",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages",
        "fr": "Loi visant l'\u00e9galit\u00e9 r\u00e9elle entre les langues officielles du Canada"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/5/12/",
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