Public Safety committee  As a former foreign correspondent, I'll take that question. I was a correspondent in China and Russia, which are not paragons of the free press, and you realize at that point how lucky we are to operate as journalists in a country like Canada, despite some shortcomings. So this

Public Safety committee  No, what I meant is that this whole exercise is not contradictory. Somebody said that maybe we should wait until the commission finishes. We have journalists across Canada, not just in Quebec, so we need the same protections across the board. Whatever they come up with in recomm

Public Safety committee  We're very happy with this definition.

Public Safety committee  I'll just add that they may feel more vulnerable to sexism and to innuendo. At the same time, Marie-Maude Denis and Isabelle Richer, the two women journalists who were caught in this fishing expedition, want very strong protection for every journalist, regardless of sex.

Public Safety committee  In this environment of fake news, the only thing we have is our credibility. That is the most precious thing we have—and the most fragile. If we make a mistake, it has even more impact today than it had before. You can be assured and confident that we are careful when we publish

Public Safety committee  We never rely on one source. The first rule is for a minimum of two sources, and more if it's even more sensitive. A source is not just somebody who shows up one day, and then you publish the stuff. We usually cultivate the confidential sources we use for weeks and months, someti

Public Safety committee  I'll take that one. It's not just overdue; it's the fact that the current state now has dried up a lot of journalistic sources. We have lost sources at Enquête, who have disappeared. People will not talk to us because they're afraid of being exposed. The last thing is that it's

Public Safety committee  If there were questions of national security or a crackdown like the October Crisis, the protection of confidential sources seems like a small element of that. We have the Constitution. We have the Bill of Rights. What supersedes what would be quite an interesting question. I th

Public Safety committee  We want to make sure that a police officer cannot just go to the judge and argue that just because they believe a journalist has participated in a crime committed by a source that it's enough to have a mandate of inquiry. We would rather have more safeguards in the process and ma

Public Safety committee  It doesn't provide protection—

Public Safety committee  We discussed an amendment to make sure this will be the case. This may be the time to ask Mr. Pierre-Roy to clearly explain the details of the amendment, which we think would improve the bill.

Public Safety committee  I can talk about it because some of our journalists are testifying before the Chamberland Commission. I don't see any incompatibility between this bill and the commission's work. There's simply the fact that Radio-Canada has journalists working in Canada's 10 provinces, whereas t

Public Safety committee  Hello. Thank you for having us. I’m Michel Cormier, the executive director of news and current affairs for Radio-Canada's French services. I'm the boss of Marie-Maude Denis and other Radio-Canada journalists who were electronically monitored by the Sûreté du Québec. Radio-Canad