An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister for this presentation. I am disappointed that the minister truly believes what she is saying. She said that she incorporated everything that was in the white paper into Bill C‑13. The white paper said that the central agency should be the Treasu

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend my colleague from Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix. I want to publicly announce that I am originally from her riding. I am very proud to have roots in Charlevoix. Like her, I want to pay tribute to the people of Baie‑Saint‑Pa

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Lac-Saint-Louis and I do not necessarily have the same views on this. I would like to remind him that today, we are not debating the bill at third reading. We are debating the bill at report stage. The Liberals have moved 10 motions. I repeat that

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I agree with you on listening to my colleague, a passionate Acadian, talk to us from his heart and soul today. Now, I have a question for my colleague the member for Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook. Today we are speaking at report stage, following the motions that hi

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the issuing of passports: (a) how many passports were mailed to the wrong address, broken down by month since January 1, 2022; (b) how many reports of individuals receiving (i) a passport with errors, (ii) another individual's passport, has the government received;

Labour  Madam Speaker, we will propose solutions when we form government. In Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, schools in Shannon and Valcartier are closed and parents are having to take time off work because traffic is being disrupted. Canadian citizens have unanswered questions about their t

Labour  Madam Speaker, I think my colleague has missed the point of what we have been saying for the last 10 days. The bureaucracy has increased by 50% in terms of costs paid by Canadian taxpayers, who are receiving fewer services. Now 155,000 Canadian public service workers are on stri

Seniors in Portneuf—Jacques‑Cartier  Madam Speaker, as the member for Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, I have the pleasure of regularly meeting with the seniors in my riding. Every time I meet with them, I can only admire how strongly they feel about being community builders. I would like to thank our presidents: Lynda La

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to my colleague's speech. I would like his thoughts on the fact that today we are debating motions moved by the government. As a member of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, he participated in the clause-by-clause study of

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I would like to acknowledge and thank my colleague for Churchill—Keewatinook Aski. We worked very actively on Bill C‑13, although we did not always see eye to eye. I heard her say in her speech that she was satisfied with Bill C‑13 and that the central agency, the T

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague and I have the same objective. I had the pleasure of working harmoniously with the Bloc Québécois to advance Bill C‑13 and above all to stop the decline of French and protect it. In the Conservative Party, we have a more Canadian vision, that of

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, with whom I had the privilege of working on Bill C‑13. With regard to francophone immigration, it is unfortunate that there is only one small paragraph in Bill C‑13 about identifying targets and indicators, but no obligation to achieve results.

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question is very relevant. I would like to point out that he may have been reading from the wrong page in his speech because his was a third reading speech. We are in the House to debate motions that were moved by the Liberal government. I can assure

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I just want to say that I would have liked to debate the motion moved by my Bloc Québécois colleague. I think that we Conservatives would have agreed to it, because it is consistent with what we presented in committee, in that it is about shortening t

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I acknowledge the work of my colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Official Languages, with whom we worked on Bill C-13 at the Standing Committee on Official Languages. I would like to inform my colleague that, today, we are not debating the bill