Online Streaming Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I am happy to agree with him once again. It does not happen very often. Bill C‑11 is fundamental. This bill showcases and supports the cultural sector. One thing that must be stressed and which members of the House need to understand is that the cultural sector is a sector that needs to be supported and promoted.

Denis Ringuette and Jacques Pellerin  Mr. Speaker, today I salute the courage, determination and dedication of two volunteer firefighters from Berthier—Maskinongé. I want to pay tribute to Denis Ringuette, who is celebrating 50 years of service as a volunteer firefighter in Louiseville, as well as Jacques Pellerin of Yamachiche, who has completed 52 years of loyal service.

Telecommunications Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. It was eminently sensible, and he made some good points. I am glad the Conservatives are going to vote in favour of the bill so that it can go to committee, and I hope we will all approach that work in good faith, as we should.

Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. Clearly, there is an incredible amount of support for this bill in the House because it deals with an obvious issue. No one wants to encourage slavery or child labour. One has to wonder why Canada's current legislation and practices allow for the importation of such products.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I am going to take the ball and run with it in the hopes that my message comes across more clearly than it did earlier, in my previous intervention. What I want to say to the NDP is that we agree on the substance. We should work together more often on social causes like this.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the passion with which he speaks. Once again, I find myself in a situation where I agree almost 100% with my colleague. However, he is not in the right parliament. Today, his political party is proposing a false solution: to support the government which is underfunding provincial health care, but prohibit the bad provinces from using private health care to solve their problems.

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, the next generation of farmers is under threat at a time when the price of land has spiked by 248% in 10 years. The House passed Bill C‑208 some time ago to make it easier to transfer a farm between members of the same family, but no one is benefiting from that because Ottawa keeps promising to amend the legislation without ever actually doing it.

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, this needs to be clarified. The La Presse article reports that farmers are no longer able to own farmland and that the seigneurial system is coming back. That is a huge step backwards. Meanwhile, the federal government is still impeding the intergenerational transfer of farm businesses by maintaining tax uncertainty.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, since I was referred to directly, I will ask my colleague a question. There are a number of points to address. Some big things are being said, and I would like to refocus the debate. Nobody here agreed with the Premier of Ontario's decisions. We did not. All we said was that these issues should be dealt with within the province.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his questions. However, there is some confusion. First, am I afraid? Not too many things scare me. We are here to debate. What we are trying to stop, and not because we are scared, is the federal government's centralizing tendency. I did not give a history lesson earlier, but I am going to give a short one now.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, my answer is quite simply “none” because I did not sign that contract. When I said that this was not my Constitution—and by the way, I also said that I am not arguing with the fact that this is a big beautiful country—I was repeating what someone else had said. I was explaining that it is too bad but that this country is not ours because we were not shown any respect in the way the administrative system was implemented.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, that is going to be a challenge. Here is what is at issue here. Canada has chosen a neutral model, in other words, everyone can display whatever symbols they want. That is fine. It does not bother the Bloc Québécois that Canada is multicultural. What we want is the power to keep our own model.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I was reminding my hon. colleagues, who are having a discussion, that Quebec’s weight within this federation is shrinking steadily and that it is essential to preserve this democratic tool. That is what this is about. It is a democratic tool that is used regularly by the Quebec government.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, regarding the bill on farm succession, as a society, Quebec has decided to give young people a leg up as they are starting out in agriculture. This is certainly discriminatory, because it provides them with financial support that we are not offering to older people.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak on this topic today. I just want to take a few seconds at the beginning of my speech to send my best wishes to the families affected by the tragedy in Laval yesterday, as this is the first time I have had the opportunity to do so in the House.