Evidence of meeting #22 for Official Languages in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was i'd.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Rodrigue Landry  Director, Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistics Minorities
Julie Gilman  Coordinator, Prince Edward Island French Language Health Services Network
Jeannita Bernard  Member, Prince Edward Island French Language Health Services Network
Lizanne Thorne  Director general, Société Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin
Nicole Drouin  Director general, Fédération des parents francophones de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Paul d'Entremont  Coordinator, Réseau santé Nouvelle-Écosse
Alphonsine Saulnier  Chair, Réseau santé Nouvelle-Écosse

11:45 a.m.

NDP

The Vice-Chair NDP Yvon Godin

Thank you. That completes our...

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Daniel Petit Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC

I'd like to know the name of the act. We're talking about the new act, and I don't have it.

11:45 a.m.

NDP

The Vice-Chair NDP Yvon Godin

Can you give us...

11:45 a.m.

Coordinator, Réseau santé Nouvelle-Écosse

Paul d'Entremont

It's Bill 111, the French-language Services Act.

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Daniel Petit Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC

That's what I needed.

11:45 a.m.

Coordinator, Réseau santé Nouvelle-Écosse

Paul d'Entremont

It's Bill 111, the French-language Services Act.

11:45 a.m.

NDP

The Vice-Chair NDP Yvon Godin

I'd like to thank our witnesses from Nova Scotia for travelling here today. As I told you this morning, I'm sure you would have liked us to go to Nova Scotia. At least we got close, for the first time in 25 years. It isn't thanks to the new government that we're here, but to the parliamentary committee, which consists of members from all political parties and which made a request to the Parliament of Canada for that purpose.

11:45 a.m.

Coordinator, Réseau santé Nouvelle-Écosse

Paul d'Entremont

We thank you.

11:45 a.m.

NDP

The Vice-Chair NDP Yvon Godin

I simply wanted to set the record straight.

We'll be back in two minutes to sit in camera. The public meeting is adjourned.

[Proceedings continue in camera]