Sheila Copps

[Audiovisual Productions, November 18th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, I did not put any pressure on the RCMP regarding the investigation. The RCMP is free to investigate any issue.

[Audiovisual Productions, November 15th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the member continues to make insinuations. I would just like to say that, if he does not believe me, and if he does not want to listen to Agnès Maltais, he would perhaps be interested in what Denise Robert, the president of the APFTQ, has to say “The insinuations of widespread misappropriation of funds we have been hearing here do not solve anything and are very harmful to the industry as a whole, which generates 25,000 direct and indirect jobs in Quebec annually”.

If he does not want to listen to me, he should at least listen to the president of the APFTQ.

[Audiovisual Productions, November 15th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, for some weeks now, I have been making the point that an RCMP investigation is now under way.

If the member does not believe me, does not believe in the process, perhaps he would believe Agnès Maltais, Quebec's culture and communications minister who, on November 13, asked that the situation within SODEC be assessed and requested that she be given the results of the RCMP investigation. With these two documents, she will be in a position to take action.

[Council For Canadian Unity, October 29th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, I can assure the hon. member that the only criterion for membership in the Council for Canadian Unity is a belief in Canada.

[Audiovisual Productions, October 28th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the member is again making allegations. I urge him once again to pass on all his allegations to the RCMP, as his boss in the Quebec City head office has asked him to do.

[National Parks, October 26th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her question. In particular I was pleased to participate with the hon. member for Nunavut in a celebration in Pond Inlet where the Government of Canada formally signed an agreement with the Inuit of the eastern Arctic to establish three new national parks.

Auyuittuq, Quttinirpaaq and Sirmilik national parks could not have happened without the help of the hon. member and the Inuit people. We thank her and the Inuit people for a very progressive pro-management agreement in three new national parks.

[Audiovisual Productions, October 26th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, for about a week now, I think, the hon. member opposite has been making allegations against CINAR and the members of Telefilm Canada. I believe that he ought to follow the lead of his leader in Quebec City, who said that these questions required reflection and that the RCMP needed to be left alone to do what has to be done.

[Audiovisual Productions, October 26th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, if the reference is to briefings for journalists, these are certainly not secret briefings.

[Audiovisual Productions, October 25th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, once again during Oral Question Period, the hon. member is trying to make unfounded allegations.

Last week I asked him, not once, not twice, but three times, as did the parliamentary secretary, to deal directly with the RCMP if he has allegations to make. The RCMP will look into them and will then report to us.

[Audiovisual Productions, October 25th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, I would urge the member, who is still making allegations, to listen to his leader, Lucien Bouchard, who had the following to say in Los Angeles two days ago “I do not wish to comment on all that. Unless the facts show otherwise, I do not think that CINAR is being specifically targeted”.

If he will not listen to me, please listen to Lucien Bouchard.