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{
"time": "2024-01-30 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8168604\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, the Nuu-chah-nulth people have suffered enormous loss throughout their 200-year history of colonization, not the least of which has been the devastating loss of language and culture.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8168605\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today, Nuu-chah-nulth elders, educators and learners are making tremendous progress towards revitalizing their indigenous language, in spite of the uncertainty of federal funding from one year to the next. Now their language program funding may be cut by up to 57% because of a newly proposed federal heritage funding formula. The formula fails to recognize that British Columbia has the highest concentration of indigenous language and cultural diversity of any province or territory in the country, with 35 distinct languages and more than 90 dialects.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8168606\" data-originallang=\"en\"> As B.C.'s First Peoples' Cultural Council reminds us, \u201cthe revitalization of languages, arts and cultural heritage is an essential step in recognizing the rights of and finding reconciliation with indigenous peoples.\u201d Language revitalization is essential to reconciliation, along with fair, predictable, sustained and long-term funding.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8168604\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, au cours des 200 ans de notre histoire coloniale, les Nuu\u2011chah\u2011nulth ont subi d'\u00e9normes pertes, dont la langue et la culture ne sont pas les moindres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8168605\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, les a\u00een\u00e9s, les \u00e9ducateurs et les apprenants nuu\u2011chah\u2011nulth font grandement progresser la revitalisation de leur langue autochtone, malgr\u00e9 l'incertitude qui r\u00e8gne quant aux fonds vers\u00e9s chaque ann\u00e9e par le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. Aujourd'hui, le financement de leur programme linguistique risque d'\u00eatre r\u00e9duit de 57 % en raison de l'adoption, par Patrimoine canadien, d'une nouvelle formule de financement. Cette formule ne tient pas compte du fait que c'est en Colombie\u2011Britannique que l'on trouve la plus forte concentration de langues autochtones et la plus grande diversit\u00e9 culturelle au pays, soit 35 langues diff\u00e9rentes et plus de 90 dialectes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8168606\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Comme l'a rappel\u00e9 le First Peoples' Cultural Council de la Colombie\u2011Britannique, \u00ab la revitalisation des langues, des arts et du patrimoine culturel est une \u00e9tape essentielle de la reconnaissance des droits des peuples autochtones et de la r\u00e9conciliation \u00bb. La revitalisation des langues est essentielle \u00e0 la r\u00e9conciliation, au m\u00eame titre qu'un financement \u00e9quitable, pr\u00e9visible et durable.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/1/30/gord-johns-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12538889",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Indigenous Language Revitalization",
"fr": "La revitalisation des langues autochtones"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/1/30/",
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}
}