Evidence of meeting #26 for Official Languages in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was roadmap.
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Liberal
Paul Lefebvre Liberal Sudbury, ON
Madam Clerk, I also suppose it is not easy to take everyone's schedules into account. We can only hear these witnesses over a certain period of time, but they also have their schedules. I understand it may be complicated to coordinate all that and to ensure they discuss only immigration and the roadmap. It becomes complicated to determine who will be coming together and when.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
It was you who said there was a deadline for the roadmap. We did not say it because we are not in the government.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
People talk to us about immigration even when we ask questions about the roadmap. I have nothing against that, but there are other things in the roadmap. That is why I would like us to make a decision: do we want to address the roadmap or do we want to talk more about immigration? It does not bother me that we are discussing immigration, but there is more than immigration in the roadmap. That is all I wanted to note.
Liberal
Paul Lefebvre Liberal Sudbury, ON
I agree with what Mr. Samson said.
So far we have heard more from people or groups who could talk about immigration and who put the emphasis on that. Other witnesses will come and talk more about the vitality of the francophone community or education. At that point, it will be up to us to ask more questions about financing, programs, or any other topic related to the roadmap, which could provide material for our study on that.
Ms. Boucher, I understand what you said.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
You are the one who has a deadline. That does not concern me since I am in opposition. I can ask all the questions I want. It is you who has a timeline, but we have not stuck to the roadmap timeline so far since we have just talked about immigration. A few people talked about education.
Liberal
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Yes, a little, but that is not—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
We can ask the clerk to mention to the witnesses that they should speak a bit about education, about youth, about—
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
That would be very good.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Yes, but when we ask questions, it depends on the tangent they go off on. We cannot talk about the roadmap if they have said nothing about the roadmap.
Liberal
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
I just want to note that, if we have not received any news about the test very soon, I will send a letter demanding that it be sent to us.
Liberal
Linda Lapointe Liberal Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, QC
It would be good for us all to try the test, to see whether we pass.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Ms. Lapointe, I just want to tell you that you will have to send me off somewhere on a boat because I failed the test five years ago. Based on my result, I would not even be supposed to be Canadian.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
Have a good week in your ridings meeting your fellow citizens. We will see each other again when the House resumes. Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.
