Madam Speaker, I agree with much of what the Bloc member has said. Like him, I am genuinely concerned about what the leader of the Conservative Party is attempting to do by bringing forward this motion.
As members are aware, I moved a subamendment. I wanted to get the Conservatives on the record. It states that the House “expresses its deep concern for the Conservative Party of Canada's threat to cut all funding to CBC and Radio-Canada, which would leave millions of Canadians living in official language minority communities without reliable news coverage in their language of choice.” We cannot help but notice that they were kind of edgy and that they really did not want to have a vote that would incorporate that sort of position.
Could my colleague provide his thoughts with respect to getting the Conservatives to, at the very least, acknowledge that CBC and Radio-Canada have such an important role in our communities?