International Trade committee  The Canadian Union of Public Employees, or CUPE for short, represents 7,500 members in the media and telecommunications industry, which has been going through constant upheaval for more than 20 years, with the dematerialization of content, the advent of the Internet and e-commerc

International Trade committee  I just wanted to say that if we had a threshold in the communications sector, let's say for a subscription to Netflix, then there's no tax applicable. Usually what you pay for those services is quite a small amount, so it wouldn't apply to have a level playing field. I also want

International Trade committee  We agree with those three objectives, which we support. I would add that we absolutely have to maintain the cultural exemptions in our international treaties. The Trans-Pacific Partnership came up earlier. Culturally, there was a loss of quality, and restoring that in the North A

International Trade committee  Might I suggest some reading? Tax expert Marwah Rizqy, at Université de Sherbrooke, published a study this summer on Australia's progress in the area of taxation, and she in fact talks about the de minimis threshold.

Canadian Heritage committee  With respect to the proposed wording to replace paragraph 3(1)(a) of the Broadcasting Act, CUPE-Quebec suggests an amendment to clarify what the Canadian broadcasting system is in the context of an open market on the Internet and, ultimately, to avoid the sale of Canadian broadca

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. In fact, this act was fundamental. If it hadn't been for the current Broadcasting Act and the CRTC regulations, there probably wouldn't be any local news on regional television stations. When I first became involved with my union in the mid-2000s,

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, the reason we suggest deleting the end of the wording proposed in Bill C‑11 is that we believe it introduces uncertainty as to the limits of the Canadian broadcasting system. A court could be led to believe that foreign broadcasting undertakings are not part of the

Canadian Heritage committee  It is because it introduces exceptions. Basically, we are telling the CRTC that Canadian resources must be used predominantly and maximally. So there is already a great deal of flexibility. For it to be predominantly Canadian, it would have to be 51%, for example, whereas the max

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right.

Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, I think it's important to reduce the uncertainty in paragraph 3(1)(f). This paragraph has been in place for years, since 1991. Earlier, I mentioned that around 2003 or 2004, local television stations were down to three hours and ten minutes of local programming per week

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I think that could effectively maintain the CRTC's inertia with regard to jobs.