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Minutes of Proceedings

Standing Committee on Official Languages (LANG)
44th Parliament, 1st Session
Meeting 105
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 9:29 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Webcast
Presiding
René Arseneault, Chair (Liberal)

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• Leah Taylor Roy for Annie Koutrakis (Liberal)
Library of Parliament
• Lucie Lecomte, Analyst
Committee Business

The committee resumed consideration of the motion of Mario Beaulieu moved on Monday, May 20, 2024, which read as follows:

That, given the obscene and offensive comments made by the Liberal MP for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell to a witness defending the cause of the French language in Quebec, the committee report to the House:

  1. that the Chief Government Whip and member of the Liberal leadership team immediately remove MP Francis Drouin from the Standing Committee on Official Languages and;

  2. that MP Francis Drouin resign as the Chair of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie".
and of the amendment of Darrell Samson moved on Thursday, May 23, 2024, which read as follows:

That the motion be amended:
  1. by deleting the words "report to the House", and point a).
  2. by replacing the words “that MP Francis Drouin resign as the Chair of the” with the words "write to the clerk of the".
  3. by adding after the words "l’Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie”, the following "—section canadienne to call a meeting to vote on the presidency of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie—section canadienne".
Debate arose thereon.

At 10:15 a.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.



Audrée Dallaire
Clerk of the committee