Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, through you, I want to thank my hon. colleague across the aisle for his question and for his party's support for Bill C‑10. He is quite right. This bill has the unanimous support of the Quebec National Assembly and the vast majority of artists. In fact, several th

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, what I find shocking and what the artistic community cannot understand is that the NDP refuses to support Bill C‑10 and that it has sided with the Conservative Party. I do not think anyone is surprised to see the Conservative Party do this, but I must admit that i

Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his comments. I would like to remind him of certain facts. First, several members of his political party asked us to go even further with Bill C‑10. We heard the same thing from an impressive number of stakeholders from across Canada,

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her question. However, I somewhat disagree with the premise of it. She said that the motion has to do with language and not culture. Honestly, since I became the Minister of Canadian Heritage, I have spoken to thousands of people across t

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his questions. I would be pleased to provide him with details in writing, but I will come back to the same example I used in my speech. Quebec stakeholders received 55% of the emergency funds provided by the Canada Book Fund, and they a

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, this is one of the elements at the heart of Bill C-10, the discoverability of Canadian artists; francophone artists by anglophones in Canada, anglophone artists by francophones in Quebec or elsewhere in the country; the discoverability of indigenous artists, which ar

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to participate in this debate and to have the opportunity to highlight Quebec's beautiful culture and its language, French. Canada has changed a lot since the Official Languages Act was introduced more than 50 years ago, and our linguistic reality has

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was saying that I want to take this opportunity to talk about how our government is supporting Quebec's unique and vibrant cultural sector. I think all members will agree that, owing to its excellence and diversity, this sector plays a key role in promoting the Fr

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, that is simply not true. It is very clear in the bill that a person who uses a social media service will be excluded. Companies like YouTube, the largest broadcaster of music in this country, are not being excluded from doing their fair share. If that is what the mem

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I think the member for Kingston and the Islands is bang on. All evening I have been asking myself about all these conspiracy theories we are hearing and the idea that we are creating a monster that is going to be bigger than the government. According to what we have

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, that was a really important question. In fact, the member is correct. APTN and many other indigenous organizations that are involved in artistic creation in the production sector are supporting Bill C-10 for the very reasons he outlined. Basically, if we read the Bro

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, there we have it again: It is all about YouTube. If people perform on YouTube, we consider them to be artists. If they are not performing on YouTube, we think what they are doing is simply no good and does not deserve our time of day, nor support from the state. For

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, when the topic of freedom of expression was debated in committee, the majority of the expert witnesses said that Bill C‑10 was compliant and that it did not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I have already said this publicly, and the member for Ri

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I think it is fair to say that the debate on Bill C-10 went completely off the rails tonight. The Conservative Party is giving us a demonstration, and a fine one, unfortunately, that it has become the party of conspiracy theories. To hear the Conservatives tell it,

Government Business No. 10—Broadcasting Act  Madam Speaker, I have three questions for the member. First, is it not true that the very day the Yale report was tabled, the Leader of the Opposition said that he would “throw it in the trash”, without even having a chance to read it? Second, is it not also true that almost th