Supply  In the 1990s the global broadcasting community began to come to terms with the arrival of new direct to home broadcast satellites. These new satellites have further explosive growth potential in the development of new television channels. Let us be clear on one thing today. The world is not sounding the death knell of public broadcasting. Countries around the world are rethinking the role of public broadcasting and are seeking to adapt these broadcasting systems to meet the challenges created by the changing environments.

Borrowing Authority Act, 1995-96  The second element of the federal budget we cannot agree to, and the second reason why we therefore cannot agree with Bill C-73 providing borrowing authority, is related to the fact that the real problem of Canadian public finances is hidden from the people of Quebec and Canada, and that is the explosive problem of chronic and massive debt, a problem that is likely to stay with us for the next few years. If I may, I will take the next few minutes to review our major objections to the budget, and therefore to Bill C-73.

Firearms Act  My question for the hon. member deals with Bill C-34, the Yukon self-government bill, which was passed in this House last June. It was my understanding that Bill C-34 gave control and prohibition over firearms and explosive devices to the new levels of native governments in the Yukon. Has the hon. member researched that at all? If so, does it mean they are in effect exempt from the new regulations in Bill C-68 once it is passed?

Bill C-71 An Act to amend the Explosives Act

Supply  A situation in which the government's best effort adds $100 billion to the debt and leaves us with a $25 billion deficit at the very top of the business cycle in a couple of years, combined with the desires that I have just mentioned, creates in my judgment a very explosive situation. On the one hand we have the wants and desires of Canadians and on the other hand we have a government that in my judgment has created a business environment that is completely contrary to that.

Young Offenders Act  The whole question indicated by the hon. member for Wild Rose of the number of people young offenders represent being 12 to 14 per cent of the population and therefore committing 12 to 14 per cent of the offences verifies the fact that we do not have this explosion of offences among young offenders. It has not occurred. It is not occurring. I am very pleased the hon. member for Wild Rose has just verified that fact for me.

Young Offenders Act  At the same time young males between 15 and 25 in our population dropped by 14 per cent. I do not know where you are coming from. There is an explosion of youth justice, looking over the last 30 years. The Young Offenders Act simply is not working. Where are you getting your figures?

Young Offenders Act  However the proportion of all persons charged from 1986 until now has remained virtually unchanged. There is not this huge explosion of an increase in crime by young offenders. It just has not happened. It only appears to have happened when distorted facts are given to the public. That has not happened. Since it has not happened we have to inform the public of the facts.

Supply  In some cases lines were abandoned although in many other cases rail lines were sold to other operators, producing explosive growth and what came to be known as the short line rail industry. The term short line is quite broad and can cover railways ranging in size from mere spurs to extensive regional networks.

Nuclear Weapons  Speaker, I would like to take the opportunity to state on the record my opposition to the decision of the Chinese government to continue the testing of nuclear weapons. For the third time in the past year China has detonated an explosive nuclear device, an action clearly out of step with the negotiations currently under way in Geneva to reach agreement on a nuclear test ban treaty. Indeed China is the only one of the five nuclear states not to adhere to the moratorium on nuclear testing in effect for the duration of these negotiations.

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act  The Minister of Canadian Heritage recognizes the importance of new technologies and the burgeoning information highway. The minister also understands that this information explosion will have important ramifications for Canadian artists. The Department of Canadian Heritage is of the utmost significance to Canadians. Its programs are inextricably linked to our everyday lives and their relevance, be it cultural or economic, is felt by each and every one of us.

Defence Industry Conversion  Last August, Expro, located in Valleyfield, laid off about 150 employees. That company, which specializes in explosives, lost a big contract in the U.S., as military markets were collapsing all over the world. What is the government doing to keep Expro from closing and save the 300 jobs at stake?

Canadian Heritage  The trees have now reached a point where they are attracting disease or bugs. If we as human beings have not learned anything from what was in many cases an explosion in Yellowstone National Park where the place turned into an absolute inferno with no conceivable way of being able to control that inferno, then we have not learned very much. Particularly in Banff National Park they have tried burning some of the undergrowth and underbrush, to try to maintain this Disneyland kind of Bambi, Smoky the Bear, approach to what a forest is supposed to look like.

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act  What is needed to bridge the gap between new arrivals and the Canadian community receiving them is to build a society based on a consensus about what constitutes the common good for people with diverse interests, backgrounds, origins and beliefs; give everyone a role to play in the big issues; and identify peaceful solutions to potentially explosive problems. In short, social peace is behind all the efforts we make through multiculturalism goals and strategies. I have travelled across the country. I have listened sometimes to the misunderstanding but I have listened to the people and have heard what they have said about our diversity.

Supply  That was not a worry for Canada for most of the forties, fifties and sixties, but with the explosion of terrorist groups and the incidents of the seventies it became a serious concern. It became clear that Canada was not immune with the 1982 assassination of a Turkish diplomat in Ottawa.