NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa will rise in the legislative chamber on Tuesday and ask a question in Anishininiimowin, known in English as Oji-Cree
Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario ’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury.
“Language is nationhood, language is identity, language is where history comes from and language is me and my people,” Sol Mamakwa, a 53-year-old NDP legislator, said in an interview. “I think about the people who have lost their language, I think about the people who were not allowed to speak their language in residential schools and I think about my mom,” Mamakwa said as he choked up. She lives with dementia and has good days and bad, he said.“She’s so proud, “ Mamakwa’s sister Esther Sakakeep, said of her mother. “As I am, for my little brother. I just wish our dad would be there, but I know he will be looking down on us.
Calandra, a staunch Progressive Conservative who runs multiple ministries, strolled by with his staffers and, as he is wont to do, chirped at the Official Opposition members. The only official languages at Queen’s Park are English and French, he told Calandra. It had been that way since Confederation in 1867, with the rules laid out in a standing order.
The new rules are now enshrined: “Every Member desiring to speak must rise in his or her place and address the Speaker, in either English, French or an Indigenous language spoken in Canada. If a Member wishes to address the House in an Indigenous language, they shall, prior to taking their seat for the first time, notify the Clerk of the House of the language in which they intend to speak so the Speaker may arrange appropriate interpretation and translation capabilities.
The legislature may eventually need to add a third interpretation booth to accommodate anyone speaking an Indigenous language, but they will also need to figure out how to perform the same act remotely if interpreters are not physically in Toronto.
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