Official Languages committee  You are well aware of the fact that the application of the Official Languages Act is currently asymmetrical. We find that perfectly appropriate. Let's look at Canadian Heritage spending in 2018. Their mean expenditure by province for official language programming was $308.88 per

Official Languages committee  Can we…

Official Languages committee  You only have three minutes for the question and answer. Clearly, I would not be able to provide a fulsome answer to that. I can highlight a number of things, which are, one, it puts restrictions on or makes it extremely difficult for employers, and that includes in public instit

Official Languages committee  Will do.

Official Languages committee  Those are excellent questions. I'm going to ask Maître Sandilands to respond.

Official Languages committee  That's not the case.

Official Languages committee  I don't believe it is.

Official Languages committee  I'll ask my colleague, Marion Sandilands, to take this question.

Official Languages committee  No, that's not the case Mr. Beaulieu. To begin with, we said that the Charter of the French Language, as amended by Bill 96, a Quebec bill which is now an act, was incompatible with the Official Languages Act, a quasi-constitutional statute. The reason we said that was because

Official Languages committee  I sent a tweet to congratulate Premier François Legault for his assistance and very clear support of the Ukrainian people during the horrible invasion by Putin. He was praising the Ukrainian people, who were defending democratic principles. I asked Mr. Legault why it would be nec

Official Languages committee  I definitely did not express myself poorly. I was not talking about the English language, but the English-speaking minority community, one of Canada's official language communities.

Official Languages committee  When you restrict employment opportunities, access to government services in English and all the possibilities…

Official Languages committee  As speaking time is very limited, I would suggest that the QCGN answer all the questions in writing. That would enable us to go into greater depth. We'd be happy to do that.

Official Languages committee  Yes, I agree with that.

Official Languages committee  Canada's Official Languages Act recognizes two official languages and English-speaking and French-speaking minority communities everywhere in Canada. Recognition is through a quasi-constitutional Canadian statute, the Official Languages Act, or the OLA.