Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for being with us, Minister, as well as all of you from the Department of Canadian Heritage. It's always a pleasure to have you at the committee.
Minister, you are satisfied with the measures adopted in the economic update. I hear you talking about investments in sport, which I must admit, are very welcome. We have been working on this for a long time and hoping to see money invested in amateur sports. This is a good thing.
That said, for several months now, our committee has been hearing from news producers and media representatives—primarily from news outlets, including many regional ones, such as those in Quebec, but also from across Canada—and they are unanimous: They want the same journalism labour tax credit as the one granted to print media.
So, I was really looking forward to opening the economic update document to see if we would finally find this tax credit. Well, I found it, so I felt a certain satisfaction. However, I'm going to need your help, and I also need you to help the news media, radio and television, because it's not clear. You say, “The Spring Economic Update 2026 announces the government’s intention to seek the views of Canadians and stakeholders on extending the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit…”. You're talking about consultations. Yet dozens of broadcasters, dozens of owners of regional media, newsrooms, and television and radio stations have come here to tell us just how necessary this is, how essential it had become. These included even major companies such as Bell, Cogeco and Videotron. They are unanimous: They need this tax credit; they need it, and it will give them an incredible boost.
However, what we see in the economic update is a bit ambiguous. We don't know if it's a commitment. We don't know if it will be implemented or when it will happen. We don't know what's missing.
Can you tell us whether these companies will get their tax credit or not?