MPs Ouellette, Jolibois call for federal role in preserving Indigenous languages

NDP MP Georgina Jolibois spoke to the Procedure and House Affairs Committee in her native Dene language, which chair Larry Bagnell said had never occurred before on Parliament Hill.
NDP MP Georgina Jolibois appeared as a witness before the Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Mar. 22.
Robert-Falcon Ouellette and Georgina Jolibois are the latest MPs to call for the right to speak Indigenous languages in Parliament and have them properly translated into French and English, saying the federal government must assume an expanded to role to 

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