There is a wacky far right infrastructure—I won't even call them media—that leads to deliberate disinformation and hate, and we've seen this played out in so many ways. They trigger themselves on things like compliments to the CBC for actually producing outstanding broadcasting. In fact, now that I'm saying this, Madam Chair, I know that the far right wacko infrastructure will start sending social media messages. The reality is that we have very strong media sector journalists who have a great deal of integrity. They have been attacked by the far right, but the reality is that there is nothing in this bill that diminishes that strong journalistic independence that we see in our country and that is one of the hallmarks of democracy.
If a member of this committee suggests that Canadians have lost confidence in the media, when we know that Canadians support the kind of integrity that our journalists show, I would have to completely disagree. There has been an attempt by the far right to make disinformation and hate...news sources. It is simply not true, and our journalists perform with integrity and independence at all times. We may not agree with what they write or say, but that's the hallmark of a democracy.
I'm going to be voting against this amendment and any suggestion that our journalists act with anything less than the complete integrity that we see from them in our press gallery and right across the country.