House of Commons — Official Languages

Com­ments on fund­ing to Official Languages

Octo­ber 5th, 2012

Mr. Royal Gali­peau (Ottawa—Orléans, CPC): 

Mr. Speaker, this fall marks the end of a series of cross-Canada con­sul­ta­tions on offi­cial lan­guages, ably car­ried out by the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage and Offi­cial Languages.

I had the plea­sure of par­tic­i­pat­ing in two of the 23 round tables that took place across our beau­ti­ful and vast country.

These round tables have pre­sented an oppor­tu­nity for the gov­ern­ment to high­light that our roadmap for 2008–13 has had its bud­get increased by 40% in com­par­i­son to the last—the largest invest­ment in the his­tory of Canada.

Even in times of global eco­nomic uncer­tainty, our gov­ern­ment increased the roadmap bud­get from $787 mil­lion to $1.1 billion.

More­over, in our last bud­get, this gov­ern­ment did not cut a sin­gle penny from the offi­cial lan­guages budget.

This is proof that the cur­rent gov­ern­ment holds offi­cial lan­guages in the high­est esteem.