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Official Languages committee I would love to respond to that. I live and work in an architecturally stunning building that was built specifically to represent the first meeting of the Fathers of Confederation in the conception of Canada as a nation. It takes up a full city block. It had the same architect as the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, if you would like visualize it, except that it's several times larger.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee I can try to speak to it because I'm such a proponent of multiculturalism in Canada, as much as I am that we're a bilingual country made up of predominantly French and English people. Immigration is something of great importance to Canada. We have new immigrants from around the world moving to this country every day, and we ask them to learn French and English.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee I can do lots of other things to make sure they're aware of it, though.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee Yes. Simply for the bilingual services, yes.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee We're celebrating Canada, as a nation.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee In 2017?
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee No. We're the national memorial to the founding of the nation in terms of the first meeting that was ever held to discuss Canada as a nation, and that happened in 1864. Our building was opened in 1964 to commemorate that.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee Absolutely, I know that.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee And that's why I—
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee Sir John A. Macdonald.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee I'm sorry.
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee Yes. That's why I want to do this show, Evangeline, because it was the mid-1700s—
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman
Official Languages committee May I respond? I agree with you completely, Monsieur Dion. This is why I want to show the story of Evangeline next year on our stage. The mid-1700s, when the expulsion of Canadians happened in the Maritime provinces, is a very big part of our history—
November 6th, 2012Committee meeting
Jessie Inman