Official Languages committee  That's the first thing.

Official Languages committee  I just want to say that, at the time, I asked you the question, and you had the right to ask the candidate questions. That's the first thing. Second, since the commissioner is an agent of Parliament, I can only express wishes. I can't have coercive powers over the commissioner.

Official Languages committee  I just want to tell you that the people we've met with across the country are very happy with our reinvestments. It goes without saying. After 10 years of the Harper government, we've been able to ease a great deal of the anxiety in the country regarding the underfunding and impo

Official Languages committee  Ultimately, I think that the modernization is important.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Clarke, you've expressed the need for leadership. Do you think that you're showing leadership with regard to your colleagues?

Official Languages committee  Did you share your opinion with your colleague Luc Berthold when he criticized Diane Lebouthillier simply for speaking French? It's a shared obligation.

Official Languages committee  I can certainly tell you that the responses to the questions were in French. I can also certainly tell you that the position taken by a colleague from Quebec, the member for Mégantic—L'Érable, regarding the place of French in the House of Commons is utterly unacceptable.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Rioux. I also want to thank you for working very hard with our team to ensure that the Royal Military College Saint-Jean will now provide university-level training. The students enrolled at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean are often Quebeckers or francophones

Official Languages committee  This was part of the Government of Canada's negotiations with the various member states of the Francophonie to ensure Canada's leadership role at the Sommet de la Francophonie in Yerevan, Armenia, last October. We're very proud that the number two at the OIF is a francophone, a Q

Official Languages committee  Thank you. It was nice to see you.

Indigenous Languages Act  moved that Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages, be read the third time and passed.

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, we have nothing to learn from the Conservatives about protecting language rights, as we recently saw with what is happening in Ontario with respect to the French fact. It is important to know that our government wants to strengthen the Official Languages Act because

Tourism  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Kitchener South—Hespeler for his important question and hard work. Last year, Ontario welcomed almost 10 million international visitors, contributing $7 billion to the economy. The Conservatives made it clear that 700,000 hard-working Ont

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, being a bilingual country is who we are and what we believe in. The reality is that while the Conservatives are cutting services to French immersion and also francophones, we are investing. There is a French teacher shortage in this country. We just reinvested $62 mi

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, these are the lives of Canadians that we are talking about. We should not be playing politics about this. We strongly condemn the arbitrary arrests of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and we continue to call for their immediate release. The minister is in close co