Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The committee did not have five weeks. It had five meetings: five two-hour—
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Online Streaming Act June 17th, 2022
Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The committee did not have five weeks. It had five meetings: five two-hour—
Service Canada June 16th, 2022
Mr. Speaker, clearly the number of Service Canada personnel working from home is not working, and the fishermen in my riding cannot work from home.
People living in rural Canada cannot get food like pizza delivered from our favourite restaurants. We must pick it up. No business charges for pickup, yet Immigration Canada demands that Service Canada charge a $20 fee to pick up a passport, which is causing a lot of complaints. This is nothing more than a Liberal tax grab.
Why is the Liberal government making Canadians pay for its failures?
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns June 13th, 2022
With regard to stomach sampling of all species of seals conducted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in Atlantic Canada since 2017: what are the details of all sampling done by the DFO, including, for each sampling, the (i) species, (ii) gender, (iii) location, (iv) dates, (v) elapsed time between the harvest and sampling, (vi) findings?
Government Business No. 16—Proceedings on Bill C-11 June 13th, 2022
Madam Speaker, my question for the member is around this issue of whether or not something gets captured by the CRTC.
I understand it states in the bill that anything that generates direct and indirect revenue would now be regulated by the CRTC. Pretty much every piece of content that is put up on the Internet has an advertisement beside it. That advertising generates revenue based on the content. The government claims user-generated content is not included in the regulation, but it is hard to see how it is not when it is generating revenue through advertising. I wonder if the member could comment on that.
Instruction to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage June 10th, 2022
Mr. Speaker, there is no relevance. He is talking about dental care, not the issue of Bill C-11.
Instruction to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage June 10th, 2022
Mr. Speaker, the member is complaining about filibustering by filibustering. Will he get to the point?
Instruction to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage June 10th, 2022
Mr. Speaker, on point of order, this member, at the beginning, said he was at a loss for words, then he said he had a lot to say. Now he is filibustering, so I am not sure we know what it is—
Instruction to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage June 10th, 2022
Mr. Speaker, my question for the opposition House leader pertains to the committee's work. I had the honour of being in a couple of committee meetings and proposed a few amendments. One of those amendments goes to the discussion we are talking about. It was to have the minister appear before committee. However, the Liberal majority challenged the ruling of the chair, who called it in order. In response to that, even though I had the floor, the chair forgot that I had the floor and said that she must have blacked out, which is one of the challenges of this virtual Parliament.
In terms of the functioning of the committee, could the opposition House leader comment on the ineffectiveness of committee chairs participating in that manner?
Government Business No. 16—Proceedings on Bill C-11 June 10th, 2022
What are they afraid of?
Government Business No. 16—Proceedings on Bill C-11 June 10th, 2022
Mr. Speaker, what is frustrating is the mischaracterization. The original motion on Hockey Canada actually came from the Conservative Party, just to make sure the record is straight.
As a person who has managed to sit in a couple of these meetings recently, I found the presentation by the member interesting because he spoke mostly about getting to clause-by-clause. What he did not talk about was the fact that the committee is in charge of its own destiny. Most committees will adjust their speaking and hearing schedules of witnesses as the testimony comes. This committee refuses to do so. The reality is that there are a lot more Canadians who want to speak on this bill. It is a part of the democratic process to hear from Canadians, so that during clause-by-clause consideration there will be better amendments. Perhaps that is something the government does not understand, because this is a very flawed bill.
I would like to ask the member this. In his speaking notes, he referred to content creators being able to access various funds to improve and support their quality like traditional broadcasters. Where exactly in the bill does it describe how a content creator is able to do that?