Minister of Official Languages Ginette Petitpas Taylor rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, June 2, 2023.
At hearings Monday of the Senate committee on official languages on Bill C-13, to update Canada’s Official Languages Act, members of a Quebec anglophone rights group, including former senator Joan Fraser, called for removal from the bill of a reference to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language.Bill C-13 was adopted in the House of Commons on May 15 by a vote of 301 for to one vote against. All parties in the House were in favour of the bill.
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