Mr. Speaker, Quebec's commissioner of the French language released his latest report yesterday.
French is still in decline and, not surprisingly, the commissioner is accusing Ottawa of contributing to that decline. Anyone who goes to any federal department in Quebec can tell right away that the language of work for the federal government is not French. Ottawa is giving bilingual jobs to unilingual anglophones. Ottawa is ignoring its obligation to translate documents into French. Obviously, Ottawa could not care less about French.
The problem is, by disrespecting French, Ottawa is disrespecting Quebec as a whole. Does the government understand that?