Evidence of meeting #62 for Canadian Heritage in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
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3:45 p.m.
NDP
Pierre Nantel NDP Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, QC
Thank you for allowing me a final moment.
I would like to point out that this is not a personal fantasy. I am drawing the committee's attention to an urgent situation. Thousands of jobs are at stake. The fact is that it will be too late after the summer.
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Thank you. I'd like to call the question.
(Motion negatived)
I would like to go to the second motion, which obviously now is kind of moot. I'll read it to you:
That the Committee invite the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), l'Association québécoise de la production médiatique (AQPM), l'Union des artistes (UdA), the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), and the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) to discuss the effects of the CRTC's recent decisions concerning local and community television, and the conditions of renewal of licences for television services of large ownership groups.
Before we get to that—we've just heard this on the first one—this is our second motion before us from Mr. Nantel.
Pierre, do you want to speak?
3:45 p.m.
NDP
Pierre Nantel NDP Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, QC
Ideally, we would have invited CRTC officials and representatives of the two groups affected by these decisions so we could ask them why these decisions were made and hear arguments from both sides.
Since we decided not to invite Jean-Pierre Blais, I cannot see how we could invite the others, even though it would be very relevant to hear their point of view.
I must point out nonetheless that the producers of national programming are all concerned.
3:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
You're withdrawing this motion then, Pierre, are you? Have you said you're withdrawing it...?
3:50 p.m.
NDP
Pierre Nantel NDP Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, QC
If you ask me to withdraw it, I will. This motion was related to the previous one in a sense and we have agreed that we do not have the time to invite Mr. Blair, so I will drop it.
The next motion was to invite the three main groups affected by this decision. You can appreciate that the very first motion was followed by two related motions, one pertaining to the main groups and the other to producers and content creators. Since my first motion has been rejected, I can drop the two others as a result.
Thank you.
3:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Thank you, Pierre.
(Motion withdrawn)
Since there is nothing further to discuss, I would like to move back in camera. I'll give us about a minute while we do that.
[Proceedings continue in camera]