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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2025-09-16 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski\u2014La Matap\u00e9dia, BQ)",
"fr": "Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski\u2014La Matap\u00e9dia, BQ)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8872353\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague. I really like the part in his speech when he said that French is not a secondary language in Canada. Quebec's motto is <em>Je me souviens</em>, or I remember. I would like to remind my colleague that it was the Conservative Party, under Stephen Harper, that appointed a unilingual anglophone auditor general, unilingual anglophone Supreme Court justices and a unilingual anglophone foreign affairs minister. I will give my colleague the benefit of the doubt. I hope that he will share the following good news with his anglophone colleagues. French is not secondary language in this beautiful, bilingual Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8872354\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The question I want to ask my colleague is the following. When the Harper government was in power, it planned to cut staff at the Canada Border Services Agency. The Conservative Party is currently in the opposition and wants to ensure border security and it wants more border officers. That was not one of its priorities when it was in government, but it is a priority now that it is in the opposition. Why?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8872353\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je salue mon coll\u00e8gue. J'ai vraiment aim\u00e9 la partie de son discours o\u00f9 il mentionnait que le fran\u00e7ais n'\u00e9tait pas une langue secondaire au Canada. Or la devise du Qu\u00e9bec est <em>Je me souviens</em>. J'aimerais donc rappeler \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue que c'est le Parti conservateur, sous le gouvernement Harper, qui a nomm\u00e9 un v\u00e9rificateur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral unilingue anglophone, des juges \u00e0 la Cour supr\u00eame unilingues anglophones et un ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res unilingue anglophone. Je vais donner \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue le b\u00e9n\u00e9fice du doute. J'esp\u00e8re qu'il partagera la bonne nouvelle suivante avec ses coll\u00e8gues anglophones. Le fran\u00e7ais n'est pas une langue secondaire dans ce beau pays: le Canada bilingue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8872354\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La question que je veux poser \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue est la suivante. Lorsque le gouvernement Harper \u00e9tait au pouvoir, il pr\u00e9voyait de r\u00e9duire les effectifs \u00e0 l'Agence des services frontaliers du Canada. Actuellement, le Parti conservateur est dans l'opposition et il veut assurer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 aux fronti\u00e8res et il veut plus d'effectifs. Ce n'\u00e9tait pas une de ses priorit\u00e9s lorsqu'il \u00e9tait gouvernement, mais c'en est une maintenant qu'il est dans l'opposition. Pourquoi?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/16/maxime-blanchette-joncas-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/maxime-blanchette-joncas/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4716/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13119091",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Strong Borders Act",
"fr": "Loi visant une s\u00e9curit\u00e9 rigoureuse \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/16/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F9%2F16%2F"
}
}