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Minutes of Proceedings

Standing Committee on Official Languages (LANG)

42nd Parliament, 1st Session

Meeting 142

Thursday, May 2, 2019, 11:35 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Room 420, Wellington Building, 197 Sparks Street

Presiding

Hon. Denis Paradis, Chair (Liberal)

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Members of the Committee present

Liberal

René Arseneault
Mona Fortier
Hon. Denis Paradis
Jean R. Rioux
Alaina Lockhart, Parliamentary Secretary — Non-Voting Member

Conservative

NDP

François Choquette

Acting Members present

• Chandra Arya for Emmanuella Lambropoulos (Liberal)

• Serge Cormier for Darrell Samson (Liberal)

• David Yurdiga for Bernard Généreux (Conservative)

In attendance

Library of Parliament

• Lucie Lecomte, Analyst

Modernization of the Official Languages Act

Witnesses

As an individual

• Graham Fraser, Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa

Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada

• Marie-France Pelletier, Chief Administrator

Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(f) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, the Committee resumed its study of the modernization of the Official Languages Act.

Graham Fraser made a statement and answered questions.

Alupa Clarke gave notice of the following motion:

That the Committee call on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to reverse its decision, effective April 1, 2019, to end unilingual francophone training at its academy, Depot Division in Saskatchewan.

At 12:17 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 12:21 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Marie-France Pelletier made a statement and answered questions.

At 1:00 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Christine Holke

Clerk of the Committee