Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, we have developed an excellent action plan for official languages. We have invested $2.7 billion in official languages, which is the largest investment in official languages in our history. We want to protect and promote the rights of language minority communities, a

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Nickel Belt. I would like to join him in celebrating Franco-Ontarian Day, which is why I am wearing green and white today. This morning I was at École élémentaire catholique Notre-Dame-des-Champs, where I got to meet 300 students and annou

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook for his excellent question. Our official language minority communities are very important to us. In order to have strong communities, we need strong media outlets, like community newspapers and radio stations.

Official Languages committee  Thank you.

Official Languages committee  I like that, “Madam Minister Mélanie”. Thank you, Mr. Chairman Denis, I appreciate your kind words. I am pleased to be here with you today, and to see familiar faces. I want to emphasize the presence of my parliamentary secretary, Ms. Alaina Lockhart, and I want to thank her for

Official Languages committee  Long live Isle Madame! Our government is also aware that official language minority community media face significant challenges. For the first time in an action plan, the government is responding directly. On October 4, I outlined the implementation of the Community Media Suppor

Official Languages committee  I am happy to be here.

Official Languages committee  I'm very happy to be able to defend official languages with a strong voice within Cabinet. I am also very happy to have a Prime Minister who believes in the importance of official languages. He has indeed invested in an important action plan, but also committed to more protection

Official Languages committee  ... do better. All of the members here, around the table, would agree that we can always do better. However, we have shown, be it through the Action Plan, the review of the Official Languages Regulations or the modernization of the act, to what extent this dossier is a priority f

Official Languages committee  We feel it is very important that bilingual services be offered, both in the public service and at the Canada Infrastructure Bank. That is why we committed to a real improvement in service provision, notably in those provided by the Infrastructure Bank. We are very happy to have

Official Languages committee  ... the current linguistic quality of services offered by the bank were not up to expectations. He committed to remedying that, and of course I am going to work with him to ensure that the bank complies with its obligations under the act.

Official Languages committee  It will be my pleasure to receive your letter and to reply to it. We have brought in various measures, because we find it important that our minority official language communities have access to bilingual services. We feared that the low demographic weight of francophones in som

Official Languages committee  Pardon?

Official Languages committee  There was a lot of inertia on the part of the Conservative government.

Official Languages committee  Since you have opened that door, dear colleague, and in order to show you to what extent official languages are not a priority for the current Conservative opposition, the last time the expression “official languages” was used by your political party in the House goes back to las