Yvon Godin at the Official Languages Committee

On March 8th, 2011. See this statement in context.

March 8th, 2011 / 9:45 a.m.

NDP

Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB

I know, I come from there. I do not need to be reminded.

In New Brunswick, there are 235,000 francophones. In the rest of the Atlantic region, there are 215,000 francophones. With a population of 450,000 francophones, you are telling me that the Atlantic... You are saying that you use section 32 of the Official Languages Act to decide that, administratively, the region is not bilingual but anglophone.

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