Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, I have to hand it to my colleague: She is very creative, which is good in the cultural sector. If we listen to people in the music sector and the film industry, they are all behind this bill. Streamers make a lot of money, which is fine. We are happy for them. However, the bill asks streamers to contribute to the creation of more music, film and television from here.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, my colleague is from Quebec. I think he is pretty great. We are from the same province. Did he talk to the Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo, ADISQ, which supports the bill? Did he talk to the Union des artistes, which also supports this bill?

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives had options. They could have sided with Canadians. They could have sided with our music creators, film producers or actors. However, they decided to side with the tech giants by abandoning the cultural sector. This is a shame. There is another thing: I do not think they understand the bill.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, Conservatives think that culture is what one finds in a yogourt bowl. They never raise it. They do not care about it. They stand up for the web giants and that is it—

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, we are here, supporting our culture, our artists, our creators, our music industry, our books, our television, our movies. What are Conservatives supporting? They are supporting web giants and tech giants. That is it. They are standing up for them, not for Canadians.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, the government has said yes to various demands made by Quebec. We are working with Quebec. What Quebec wants is to see Bill C‑11 passed for the music, film and television industries. The Conservatives, who have filibustered the bill the entire time, have suddenly woken up to say that culture is important.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, I do not think my colleague understands what he is talking about. If he is talking about Bill C-11, it is simply asking streamers to support Canadian culture. If he is talking about C-18, it is simply asking the web giants to support independent journalism. One thing remains: the Conservatives keep filibustering things that are absolutely essential for Canadians.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Party, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP are certainly working in Quebec's interests. It is like we are dealing with a groundhog that has just woken up from its winter slumber and is telling us how well it slept, now that it has finally woken up. However, things were moving while the groundhog was hibernating.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, I am glad that my colleague did not yell too loudly or he might have woken up his gang that has been asleep for the past year. We have been debating this bill for a year. The Conservatives in the House are asleep. The Conservatives in the Senate are asleep. In the meantime, we are working for the music, movie and television industry.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, the bill was introduced over a year ago. On the House side, 12 meetings were held, 80 witnesses were heard and 52 briefs were tabled. On the Senate side, 31 meetings were held, 138 witnesses were heard, and there were 675 hours of study. Is it only now that my colleague is waking up, a whole year later?

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, everyone knows the expression “to fall asleep at the switch”. Well, my colleague is taking it to a new level, to the point that there will be a photo of the Conservative caucus next to the definition in the dictionary. The bill has been the subject of debate in the House and Senate for a year now.

Official Languages  They care, Mr. Speaker. As for judgment, I am not so sure. I am glad the Bloc Québécois is interested in French. It just had a whole opposition day, and members could have talked about the environment, our seniors, the fight against poverty or even French, but no, they got together and decided to talk about the Constitution.

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I do not see what he is worried about, because the Bloc members will vote against a bill designed to strengthen French in Quebec and across the country and give the Commissioner of Official Languages more powers. The Bloc Québécois-Conservative coalition is going to try to bring down a bill that is good for French everywhere.

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, Bill C‑13 is a good bill. It recognizes that French is threatened and that more needs to be done to protect French both within and outside Quebec. However, the Conservative-Bloc coalition plans to vote against this bill. It is doing everything to defeat it. We, on the Liberal side, will continue to fight to defend French across the country.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, there is a consensus in Quebec on the importance of the bill and the importance of supporting our artists, creators, directors, producers, those who top the best-of lists in music, film and television. Everyone agrees, except the Conservatives, who never talk about culture.