“They’re not following the usual playbook and know that it will hurt the party,” a University of Ottawa’s political science professor says of comments made by some Liberal MPs about bill C-13.
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“Those are conversations that should normally stay in caucus. I can fully understand some MPs don’t agree, and there are tough conversations. But at some point, there’s a position and you need to defend it,” she said. “It’s as if they had completely forgotten about the good of the party.” require federally regulated businesses in heavily francophone regions to make it a right to serve customers in French, and for workers to work in French. In its preamble, Bill C-13 states that “Quebec’s Charter of the French language provides that French is the official language of Quebec”.
“I will say that as a member of Parliament, in the seven years I’ve been here, this is perhaps the most important argument that I’ve ever made in Parliament,” said Anthony Housefather, MP for Mount Royal, a Montreal riding with a large anglophone population. “I’ve never had more calls, more emails on any issue than I’ve had on this one.”quash any additional references to Quebec’s language law
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