Mr. Speaker, yesterday, francophone Canadians watched the last broadcast of La Soirée du hockey on the CBC's French television network.
It is now francophones who are in the penalty box, but they are there for an indeterminate period of time.
It is truly outrageous that a public corporation can no longer continue a quasi-cultural tradition that goes back 50 years.
In my riding, hundreds of homes will be deprived of an evening that had become a family ritual. With their low income, these families will never be able to afford cable and will be unable to continue to support their favourite team.
I urge the Minister of Canadian Heritage to step in to get this decision overturned and ensure that francophones will not be once again the big losers because of this decision.