Status of the French Language in Montreal  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for the question. He seems to be having a hard time understanding that on this side of the House there are many proud Quebeckers to whom protecting the French language is a concern and who are working to protect it in Quebec, of course, but

Status of the French Language in Montreal  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her comments. We had the pleasure of chatting recently. New Brunswick is a wonderful province I have had the opportunity of visiting many times. I have written three books in French, and the book fairs there were even busier than in Mo

Status of the French Language in Montreal  Mr. Speaker, I will share my time with the hon. member for Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook. Aside from being a means of communication, language is also an expression of our culture. It tells our stories and accompanies our dreams. Language gives us the ability to understand and he

Status of the French Language in Montreal  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie for his intervention, which was very interesting and very relevant. He talked about the importance of culture. I would like him to sum up in 30 seconds how he sees the vital connection that exists between language

CBC/Radio-Canada  Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the member opposite that the CBC is an autonomous Crown corporation responsible for managing its own operation while offering Canadians accurate and quality information without political interference. The Conservatives would like to tell the C

Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for his speech and his passionate testimonial about local media. I myself delivered La Tuque's L'Écho when I was a boy. I also wrote for several local media outlets. However, there appears to be some confusion. Bill C-10 is ab

Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, William Shatner is, in fact, from the wonderful city of Montreal. One of the interesting aspects of the bill, one could argue, is that for the first time ever, it puts an emphasis on indigenous production, whether it be with regard to music, TV or the big screen. I

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Drummond for his speech. I have some questions for him. He said that francophone producers and artists across Quebec and Canada had thrived because of the protections we put in place. Here is one of my questions for him: Where are t

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I have a lot to say. I would first like to point out that the party my hon. colleague represents had 10 years to tackle most of these issues while it was in power, but it did nothing. It actually reversed progress on a number of these issues. My colleague seems t

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I have the Yale report right here. Members will recall that the Yale report said that service providers are in the business of infrastructure, so they should invest in infrastructure, and content providers are in the business of content, so they should invest in co

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, the CBC/Radio-Canada is a very important institution to Canadians from coast to coast to coast. The member may recall that it was our government that made a record level of investments in the CBC in our previous mandate. After 10 years of cutbacks by the Harper go

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, as I said earlier, this is a very important sector. It is contributing $20 billion to Canada's GDP and 160,000 jobs across the country. What we are doing by introducing the bill is protecting Canadian cultural sovereignty and these jobs. Of course, some American c

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis for his question. As I said several times, this bill is a first step in this venture of implementing a regulatory framework on the web giants' various operations. I am the first to admit that there is still wo

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. We cannot say that we have to make sure that the legislation and regulations apply to web giants if we do not allow this legislation and these regulations to apply to them. Paragraph 3(1)(a) is precisely what will allow us to

Broadcasting Act  moved that Bill C-10, An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts, be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I would first like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional territory of the