Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The "Writing Thru Race" conference sponsored by the Writer's Union of Canada has made no changes to its exclusionary policy. Racism is racism and you cannot hide it behind a banner of intellectual rationalization.
The minister stated last Friday that he would get the facts on the "Writing Through Race" conference.
The facts of this discriminatory conference are quite simple. Parts of the conference exclude white writers from participating and the Canada Council has committed $10,000 to support it.
Now that the minister has the facts will he issue a ministerial directive to the Canada Council to immediately withdraw its funding for this conference?