Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, of course, I always appreciate the opportunity to collaborate in a multipartisan and non-partisan way with members like my colleague from Victoria. This is a good question. For the first time, the bill actually recognizes the French fact and the importance of investing in francophone stories and music.

Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I also applaud the minister's plan to instruct the CRTC to ensure that contributions from online broadcasting services flow to French-language and indigenous creators. I agree with his suggestion that the CRTC consider using incentive-based tools to encourage greater support for creators from equity seeking groups.

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I would first begin by acknowledging that, while the House sits on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe, I join the House from my community office here in Milton, the traditional territory of many first nations, including the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, the Anishinabek, the Attawandaron and, more recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Toronto—Danforth, and I would ask that she go first.

Post-Secondary Education  Madam Speaker, I apologize to you, the members in the House, anybody listening and the interpretation team for the oversight with regard to my headset. One would think that after 10 months, I would be used to it. I want to thank the member for Edmonton Strathcona for her advocacy and for the good questions.

Post-Secondary Education  Madam Speaker, I have great respect for the member's work and the advocacy she is doing on behalf of her constituents and students in her riding. I want to be very clear. The Government of Canada has been committed to supporting young people from the very beginning of this pandemic.

The Salvation Army  Madam Speaker, the Salvation Army, Khi Community, which serves families in Milton, believes in supporting those who need it most. This pandemic has affected families across Canada. When parents were worried about putting food on the table or affording diapers and formula, our Salvation Army doubled its efforts to get families in Milton the help they need.

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. It could be said the bill does not go far enough to make conversion therapy illegal and criminal. I am not a lawyer, but I know it is very difficult to tell consulting adults exactly what they can do with their time and their money.

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I am thankful to expand on the previous member's question. I am not a lawyer. I am not an expert on these types of legal matters, but I know it is very difficult to put into law restrictions on what consenting adults can do with their time and their money. I am with the member.

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I think this will become better legislation as we discuss these issues more thoroughly. I am thinking back to Catholic school and the earliest experience that I had when I was a young boy talking to the chaplain about sexuality. I recall him saying that we love the person, but we hate the act.

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by acknowledging that I am joining members from the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation here in Milton. It is my honour to join the House from my office to discuss amendments to the Criminal Code that would move us one step closer to banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy.

Bills of Exchange Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise again to express solidarity with my colleague and to thank him for teaching me so much about Mi'kmaq culture and for speaking the Mi'kmaq language in the House of Commons for the first time. His interventions and interjections on the committee we mutually serve, indigenous and northern affairs, have brought so much to the conversation and debate.

Bills of Exchange Act  Mr. Speaker, I only rise today to express solidarity to the member for North Island—Powell River. I watched intently as she expressed her emphatic desire to have this passed. I also wanted to rise to express disappointment that it will not be as expedient as we had hoped. I know I should be framing this as a question, and I will, but I wanted to go on the record and express solidarity and an interest in supporting her, her community and various other indigenous communities in any way possible.

Youth  Mr. Speaker, the public service worked to find the best possible delivery of this program to get students grants for their volunteer hours. The public service worked with the WE organization to develop this agreement, and this work was done and negotiated at the officials' level.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I will take the question under advisement and ask the correct officials and the minister in charge if this is something that we might consider.