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Evidence of meeting #37 for Canadian Heritage in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was broadcasters.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #37 for Canadian Heritage in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was broadcasters.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:10 p.m.
Conservative
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
Am I correct in understanding that if we have a friendly amendment and a friendly subamendment because the movers agree to take it as if it was hers, then we don't have to have all those debates on subamendments and amendments?
5:10 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
I'm not going to get into legal terms, but I think if we can come up.... We can accept that. I will.
5:10 p.m.
Liberal
Hedy Fry Liberal Vancouver Centre, BC
Mr. Chairman, on that point, I need to respond to Mr. Coderre's suggestion.
I do think that it's not only the mover of the motion who we have to convince with the subamendment; obviously there are other people around this table who may need to hear reasons to convince them. They may not be convinced, actually, so....
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Okay. What I'm going to do is go back to Mr. Chong's motion, or the motion Mr. Chong made. Do we have unanimous consent to what Mr. Chong said?
5:15 p.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Okay, so we're down to funding, period. Correct?
This is the way it reads, and we've all accepted this unanimously:
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage recommends that the government commit to allocating to the Canadian Television Fund long-term funding that is indexed to private sector increases and that the share of the Canadian Television Fund allocated to the CBC/SRC productions is always at least 37% of total funding.
Correct?
5:15 p.m.
NDP
Bill Siksay NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Should that be “total CTF funding”?
No, it's “total funding”; sorry.
5:15 p.m.
NDP
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
It's as you read it. That's what I have written.
5:15 p.m.
NDP
Bill Siksay NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC
You were eliminating the last phrase of the government's follow-up?
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
What I had assumed was that Hedy's addition after that was to follow.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
I'm just going up to there, and we all agreed to that.
Now Mr. Coderre has a little....
5:15 p.m.
Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
The only thing is, can we put between parentheses, after “total funding”, “historical access”—accès historique? There's a reference, and we know what we're talking about, and I don't think we can play with the numbers afterwards: we know what it means. It's global, total, or whatever you want to call it, but it's an historical access, a term of reference.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Do we have unanimous consent to add in brackets, after “total funding”, “historical access”?
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
Can I have a point of clarification here?
I'm really lost. I don't know whether I'm the only one who's lost as to exactly where we are on this motion right now. We had an amendment, then we had a suggested friendly subamendment, and we had a second friendly amendment to the amendment.
I don't even know where we are. I don't know how this actually reads right now.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Strike off the last subamendment, because it was accepted unanimously from Mr. Chong.
Now we're at the subamendment of Mr. Coderre, to put in brackets, after “37% of total funding”, the words “historical access”.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
Just for clarification, the only thing we have actually done to this point to the original motion is change the word “so” to “and”. Is that correct?
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
We've added the words “of the CTF” after the word “share”. Is that correct?
That was done by unanimous consent--is that correct?
