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Official Languages committee There was a lot of inertia on the part of the Conservative government.
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
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
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee And in fact, the critic Steven Blaney asked me another question about official languages since his appointment to this file.
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee In addition...
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee It will be my pleasure to discuss this matter with the opposition.
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee The Conservative opposition did not really provide any direction in the matter of official languages.
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee Yes. I was asked a question and I was answering it.
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee Thank you, dear colleague. Congratulations again for all the leadership you're showing to support the anglophone community in Quebec. It is very important. Regarding education in general, first of all, we've stabilized funding that will be sent to provinces and territories. That
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee What we've heard is that anglophone communities, English-speaking communities in Quebec have specific needs. In particular, the ones outside Montreal really need our support because they don't necessarily have access to many services in the official language of their choice. Ther
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
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
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
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
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
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
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
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.
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
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
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly
Official Languages committee Pardon?
November 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Mélanie Joly