Pierre Dionne Labelle at the Official Languages Committee

On May 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.

May 7th, 2013 / 4:50 p.m.

NDP

Pierre Dionne Labelle NDP Rivière-du-Nord, QC

I am going to ask you to continue elaborating on your argument on this point.

Let us say that I am at the British Columbia Ministry of Education. I would look at the make-up of the population and see that 4.5% of the population speaks Punjabi, 3.2% speaks Cantonese, 2.9% speaks Mandarin and 1.3% speaks French.

I monitor the economic development of China and the Asian countries in general. I figure that, if I chose to offer immersion courses, why would I not offer them in Cantonese?

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