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During question period on government priorities, the Bloc Québécois asked how the government could restore progress on fighting climate change and on protecting French-language culture, saying the Prime Minister had ended Canada’s climate efforts and had acted to please large American internet companies. The Liberal reply said the government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in French-speaking culture in Quebec and Canada, which the Bloc did not request in its budget submissions, and pointed to investments including a high-speed rail project, which it said the Bloc opposes.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Christine Normandin

Bloc Québécois

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“The Prime Minister stopped fighting climate change. He also hurt French-language culture to please big American internet companies. I want to know how the government can undo all this progress.”

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    This statement targeted a person rather than their actions or views: “just to please Donald Trump”.

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Mr. Speaker, as we take stock of this parliamentary session, there are two things that Quebeckers will remember. The first is how the Prime Minister betrayed the environment by putting an end to Canada’s fight against climate change and by pushing the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie to resign. The second is how the Prime Minister betrayed our culture by sacrificing the creation of French-language content for the sake of the web giants just to please Donald Trump. These two steps backward are jeopardizing our future and will basically just serve to line the pockets of American tycoons. How can the Liberals undo an entire generation’s struggle and progress like that?

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Steven MacKinnon

Liberal
“Our government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to protect French culture and language, which the Bloc Québécois did not ask for. We are also building a high-speed train for the environment, but the Bloc opposes it.”
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about generations and generational investments. We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Quebec’s and Canada’s French-speaking culture. That is something that the Bloc Québécois did not even ask for in its budget requests. We, in the Liberal Party of Canada, are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in francophone culture and in the survival of the French language. When it comes to the environment, why is the Bloc Québécois turning its back on the high-speed train, the greenest transportation project in Canadian history? The Bloc Québécois is now opposed to that project. This is an environmental revolution.

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