Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, through you, I would like to recommend something to the parliamentary secretary. It is the holiday season and time to shop for presents. This year, I would like to recommend a Christmas gift for him. It is a fascinating book written by a historian and available in a

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Quebec City's other shore for his comments. I can tell him that the Vidéotron Centre was built and is operational, whereas the Quebec Bridge has been rusting this whole time. I invite him to attend a show. I would be pleased to invite him a

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the minister for his speech. There is a broad consensus that we must take action and that the status quo is no longer acceptable, especially after the release of the Yale report. In his speech, the minister spoke a great deal about fairness, but unfortuna

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, along the same lines, I would nevertheless like to congratulate my colleague from Drummond, who reminded us that it was a Conservative prime minister who first thought of legislating broadcasting in Canada. However, as part of the discussion, he clearly stated in

Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, today I am pleased to speak to Bill C-10, the broadcasting bill introduced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage. The Broadcasting Act clearly needs modernizing. The last time it was dusted off and updated was over 28 years ago. At the time, the Internet did not exis

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. I cannot take credit for the expression “tyranny of sensitivity”. It was coined by the intellectual Mathieu Bock-Côté, to give credit where credit is due. It means that we have to be able to express ourselves even if we occas

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I have a question for my colleague in return. If we can use regulatory means, then why have a bill? I thank the member for recognizing the immense contribution of the Conservatives to our culture in the country. The member might be interested to know that the fir

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, as I just mentioned, it is a basic Conservative principle that we have fairness among businesses. What we have now, and the Yale report has recognized it, is unfairness and an emergency to act. Unfortunately, the Liberal bill in front of us does not address this cr

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his interest in this very important issue, which is about the role of the CBC in our country and the way the CBC can coexist with the private sector, especially at a time when the private sector has been hard hit. How can we ensure that the

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her excellent question. She is quite right. During the pandemic, I even approached the minister about investing in our regional weeklies and community radio stations. This was done on a very small scale. Many Quebec organizations are reach

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I share the member's grief in seeing some of his friends lose their jobs. In my riding, there is some rationalization among local media. There used to be two newspapers in Lévis and now there is only one. The media sector has been impacted hard. As I mentioned in

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I would like my colleague to say a few words about the importance of Quebec culture. Does he believe it is being protected by the bill? Does the bill promote it? I did not see anything in the bill to suggest that to be true. Does my colleague believe that the bil

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I really enjoyed my colleague's heartfelt speech. Her strong attachment to her culture and her language came through loud and clear. She herself is a very talented artist. In her speech, she talked about protecting content creators. This morning, I talked about pr

Official Languages  Madam Speaker, this has been a rough week for the French language in Canada under the Liberal government. The government has denied that French in Montreal is on the decline, and the Quebec president of the Liberal Party of Canada called the Charter of the French Language oppres

Official Languages  Madam Speaker, what are these elected members waiting for? When will they get to work? It is when the going gets tough that we discover who our real friends are. Yesterday, francophone and Acadian communities and the anglophone minority in Quebec understood that the Liberals are