Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The sale of Ginn Publishing to Paramount Communications of New York is causing much concern in Canada's publishing world and cultural industry. We are about to see yet another instrument for the expression of cultural identity taken over by foreign interests. In addition, the whole operation has a clandestine air to it. It appears to have been conducted in secret on the strength of a verbal agreement of unknown origin.
Will the minister reveal the identity of the person responsible for this sell out of our interests to a foreign publisher?