Sheila Copps

[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, June 2nd, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, the reference to relatives gives me an opportunity to say how much my mother-in-law, Stella Thorne, enjoys Here and Now . She watches it every night and I hope she hasn't changed so she can watch me saying hi to my mother-in-law tonight on Here and Now .

That being said, I do hope that some of the modernizations that are going to be brought forward by the CBC will include increased investments in regional productions in a number of areas. I very much hope that the music and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador—something that the former leader of the PQ thinks does not exist—get a chance to be seen across the country.

[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, June 2nd, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. It gives me an opportunity to thank hon. members on all sides of the House who expressed concerns to the board and the management of the CBC and caused them to overturn a decision which would have been disastrous. However, I do find it passing strange that the question comes from the hon. member whose party had a position in the last election of getting rid of Here and Now .

[The Environment, June 2nd, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, one of the results of the passage of CEPA is that the Minister of the Environment is reviewing all his options precisely in light of the concerns expressed by a number of parties.

[The Environment, June 2nd, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, I very much appreciate the member's question. The government did move to limit the importation of toxic waste. This was a decision that was subsequently overturned on a legal argument.

I can tell the hon. member that the Minister of the Environment is going to meeting with his counterparts next week in Quebec City. This is one of the issues that they obviously have on their agenda.

[Unesco Institute Of Statistics, June 1st, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, we are thrilled with the choice of Montreal as the site of the UNESCO institute of statistics, especially since this also comes under a policy whereby Montreal will become an international site for both the environment and statistics.

I think it is thanks to the work of several MPs and ministers that Montreal, Canada, was chosen by UNESCO to create jobs in Canada and to raise our international prestige.

[Violence On Television, May 31st, 2000]

Yes, Mr. Speaker.

[Canadian Heritage, May 16th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, it is rather ironic if we follow the logic of the hon. member, because my understanding is that the $5,000 which was approved by Canadian Heritage for this project was matched by the Government of Quebec, so I suspect that the Prime Minister should have a political alliance with Lucien Bouchard.

[Canadian Heritage, May 16th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, the charade of hon. members opposite will become obvious when I look, for example, at dozens of projects where members of the reform/alliance party wrote to me seeking support because they saw that projects in their ridings were very good projects. I will look at the numbers for TJF projects: Kootenay—Columbia, $3.5 million for six projects; Nanaimo-Alberni, $2.3 million; Nanaimo—Cowichan, $1.3 million; Okanagan—Coquihalla, $478,000; Kootenay—Boundary—Okanagan, $2.5 million—

[Canadian Heritage, May 16th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, I think the hypocrisy of the party that ran—

[Canadian Heritage, May 16th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, as early as yesterday I was lobbied by a member of the opposition, who has a meeting in my office at 4.15 p.m. to lobby for a project in his riding.