Canadian Heritage Committee on Feb. 5th, 2021

Evidence of meeting #14 for Canadian Heritage in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was documents.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Subject Matter of Bill C-10, An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee Ms. Aimée Belmore

Monika Ille Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Michael Geist Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual

Solange Drouin Vice-President, Public Affairs and Director General, Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo

Joel Fortune Legal Adviser, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Daniel Bernhard Executive Director, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting

Sophie Prégent President, Union des Artistes

Pascale St-Onge President of Fédération nationale des communications et de la culture, Union des Artistes

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Just to add to what Mr. Housefather just said, the reason we did that was that we were getting different messages from the comments that we were getting, which steered us away from the wording of your motion. We now have some greater clarification of what your intent is, and if you want to move this motion, you most certainly can.

Did I see Mr. Aitchison with a comment?

February 5th, 2021 / 3:20 p.m.

Conservative

Scott Aitchison Conservative Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

As this goes on, I want to point out that Mr. Shields has lost his connection. I don't know if that changes anything for us, but part of me is jealous of his having lost his connection.

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Okay.

We were looking for operational clarification. The motion then stands. We can end it at that, if you still want to proceed with your same motion, as long as everybody is of the understanding that it's “all documents presented”. As Mr. Housefather pointed out earlier, we all understand that they come from one place, whether departmental, House of Commons, so on and so forth.

Do you want to proceed with the same motion?

Then we're fine. We can just readopt it as is. It is so ordered.

I'm sorry for the confusion, folks.

In the few minutes we have left, I have a couple of things we could do here. We could meet offline to talk about extra hours or not, or we could bring it up at the next meeting. I could carve out some time to talk about that if you so wish. I'm looking for some input on that.

3:20 p.m.

Conservative

Scott Aitchison Conservative Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON

Can we bring it up at the beginning of the next meeting, please?

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

I thought you might bring that up.

Mr. Rayes.

3:20 p.m.

Conservative

Alain Rayes Conservative Richmond—Arthabaska, QC

I move that we discuss it in camera at the beginning of the next meeting. It's Friday, and everyone is tired. We've all worked hard this week, and we're already over on time.

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

All right. I will carve out some time, and we'll talk about whether or not we're going to do that.

In the meantime, have a great week. As you know, next week is a constituency week, and of course Monday is a holiday. We'll see you two Fridays from now.

Thanks, everyone.