Evidence of meeting #59 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was supplementary.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
Scott Brison Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
No, the issue here is this. We made a significant commitment, as a government, to invest in CBC as part of budget 2016. This is an instalment as part of that and to—
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Conservative
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Liberal
Scott Brison Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
—ensure the development and dissemination of digital content. There were cuts to CBC for an extended period of time—
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
Minister, when you say provide Canadians with better....
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Liberal
Scott Brison Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
—and part of this is reversing those cuts and investing in the digital infrastructure and—
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
If you could just answer the question. I am sorry to be rude.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
How is that money going to be used to provide Canadians with better access to programs?
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Conservative
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Liberal
Scott Brison Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
You've asked me about digital content and the availability of more digital content for CBC. That's part of the priority and they need to invest in a platform for content and more innovative content. There is, right now, in terms of the digital platform....
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
Provide better access.... Can I just assume this was written up wrong?
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Liberal
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
How is $75 million being used to provide them with better access?
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Liberal
Scott Brison Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
It's a question of semantics. They were investing in new content.
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
Let me just ask this briefly and I'll move on. It doesn't say more content or new content. It says better access.
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Liberal
Scott Brison Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
You have better access to better and new content and enhanced services.
If I may, in terms of content, CBC has a lot of archives and really important archives. Digitizing those archives is important. It does cost money and this is part of the funding that will enable CBC to digitize more....
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
If I can interrupt because I have a couple of more supplementaries I want to get to.
Funding to support interim measures as part of a review of the federal environmental assessment process for the NEB is estimated at almost $700,000. Was that for the selection of the five new NEB members? From a CBC article on November 8, it stated that the Liberals named a five-person panel to help reform the NEB. Was that what this money was for?
