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  • His favourite word is languages.

Bloc MP for La Pointe-de-l'Île (Québec)

Won his last election, in 2021, with 47% of the vote.

A week ago

Voted Yes on Vote #740 on Bill S-209 Respecting Pandemic Observance Day

Voted No on Vote #739 Motion to proceed to Orders of the Day

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Federal Funding for Minority-Language Post-Secondary Institutions I'll be giving Mr. Surette the opportunity to respond, but before that, I'd like to touch on the asymmetry you mentioned earlier. We know that the ...

Spoke in the House on Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act Madam Speaker, I would like to know why this bill does not comply with the Quebec-Ottawa agreement on labour and why it does not properly respect ...

Voted No on Vote #737 on Bill C-50 Respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and ...

Voted No on Vote #738 on Bill C-50 Respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Federal Funding for Minority-Language Post-Secondary Institutions Thank you. As you know, there’s a difference between what happens in Quebec and what happens outside Quebec. If we compare the demographic weight of anglophones ...

Voted No on Vote #686 Motion to proceed to Orders of the Day

Spoke in the House on Constitution Act, 1867 Madam Speaker, Bill C-347 seeks to give members of Parliament and senators a choice regarding the oath they take. They can choose to swear allegiance to ...

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Language Obligations Related to the Process of Staffing or Making Appointments to ... Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Cassie, as we know, French has declined quite significantly. In fact, the percentage of the population who use French as their ...

A month ago

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Language Obligations Related to the Process of Staffing or Making Appointments to ... Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Tellier, I'm going to talk about the elephant in the room. Bilingualism is being discussed left and right. During our study ...

Spoke in the House on Canada—Ukraine Relations Mr. Chair, my colleague from Montarville was wondering earlier about the government's strategy. The government is fearmongering and constantly hinting at the possibility of a Russian ...

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Language Obligations Related to the Process of Staffing or Making Appointments to ... Thank you, Ms. Carr. By the way, you speak excellent French. The situation is a little discouraging. On the one hand, the government talks about strengthening ...

Spoke in the House on Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois will be supporting the motion. I would like the member to give us more information on the last part, which aims ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Increased Francophone Immigration to Canada, Economic Development of Official Language Minority Communities, ... Another factor concerns Quebec. I'm told that the federal government admits it has a responsibility to defend and promote French in Quebec as well. Yet we ...

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Economic Development of Official Language Minority Communities Thank you. My question is for Mr. Vaillancourt. We have had as a witness the Provincial Employment Roundtable, or PERT, whose studies revealed that anglophones in ...

Spoke at the Official Languages committee on Economic Development of Official Language Minority Communities I don't want to prolong the debate too much, but based on what you've told us and the impression we have, she refused to appear. She ...

Spoke in the House on Official Languages Mr. Speaker, perhaps French is in decline at the federal level because never before have the Liberals appointed so few francophones to decision-making positions. Francophones were ...

Three months ago

Spoke in the House on Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to congratulate my colleague from Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques for his excellent speech and his dedication to the French language. He ...

Spoke in the House on French Language Mr. Speaker, after the English-only Grey Cup controversy, and the hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where Punjabi was used in place of French, Louis Riel must ...

Spoke in the House on Official Languages Mr. Speaker, what we are seeing is a marked tendency to extinguish the francophone presence in Canada. It is happening in the justice system, as my ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-354 An Act to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act (Quebec’s cultural distinctiveness and French-speaking communities)

Posted on Twitter Selon Pablo Rodriguez, remettre en question que le fédéral finance massivement l'anglais alors que le français est… https://t.co/aQ0zmSBCQI

Posted on Twitter Justin Trudeau dit que le fédéral doit aussi protéger et de promouvoir le français au Québec, mais toutes les subve… https://t.co/ORPdUwIoQJ

Posted on Twitter Cet après-midi, le Bloc Québécois a rencontré la Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones dont nous… https://t.co/HA961meU8o

Posted on Twitter Plutôt que d’intimer à ses députés de cesser leur désinformation, Justin Trudeau a choisi de propager des mensonges… https://t.co/bwT9ycjhGt

Posted on Twitter Inacceptable! Au Comité des langues officielles le @Liberal_party et @NPD tentent de bâillonner l'étude du PL C-13… https://t.co/tenlQkbmJZ

Posted on Twitter Merci à cette combattante acharnée pour le français. À la tête de SOS Montfort, elle a réussi à résister au gouvern… https://t.co/MwJQxpzNlQ

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-421 An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (adequate knowledge of French in Quebec)