Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, we said from day one that we are open to discussions with different parties. We are open to considering amendments. Those amendments happen at committee, so if they have suggestions they can bring them to the committee. I had the opportunity yesterday to appear in

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, when the bill was introduced, the first debate on second reading, a lot of colleagues asked questions about anything but the bill. It was their opportunity to ask important questions about the bill.

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her very important, sincere work on this topic. We also had good conversations yesterday at committee. As I mentioned earlier, this bill is for all indigenous people across the country: on reserves, in cities, everywhere. This is why we are

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, despite my colleague's somewhat harsh words, I would like to thank him for his collaboration during yesterday's committee meeting. It is my understanding that his party, and all other parties in the House, will also collaborate to ensure that this bill, which will go

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, the codevelopment process from day one has involved everybody, meaning the Inuit, the Métis and the first nations. The four groups, including the government, all agreed that 12 principles are the basis of this project. We agreed that we have to respond to calls to ac

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague started his comments by saying that the Prime Minister, in his campaign promise, said that we would do things differently. That is exactly what we did. We have been consulting for almost two years with the Inuit, with the Métis, with first nations

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his thoroughness on this file. We had the opportunity to discuss it yesterday. I could tell how important this is to him. I want to come back to the question raised by his colleague. As I already said, we have been in discussions with all

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, it is rather amusing to hear my colleague ask questions and then answer them himself. I said this is an important bill because we have been working on it for a year and a half. We introduced it now because we have taken a year and a half to draft this bill with vari

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Yukon for his amazing work. Our language represents who we are. It is how we tell our stories to our children. Most indigenous languages are in danger and many have been lost. We need to act and we need to act now, hand in hand with indigenou

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order to table the government's responses to Order Paper Questions Nos. 2192 and 2211, and a revised response to Question No. 1720.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Members of the committee, good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to speak before the committee. Before we begin, I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg. As you mentioned, I am joine

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Breton. Thank you for inviting me. I so enjoyed visiting your riding and playing guitar with the students at the school in Granby. It was a nice time.

Canadian Heritage committee  It was spur of the moment and memorable. You are right to point out that we've made a considerable investment in festivals. In fact, there are two investments in particular that you need to remember. For major festivals we are investing $16 million in the Canada Arts Presentatio

Canadian Heritage committee  You are right to bring that up. As you said, our newspapers are in crisis. They have lost half their employees since 2010. We are going to address the heart of the problem by creating concrete measures to support Canadian newspapers, big and small, all while preserving journalis

Canadian Heritage committee  It has to be about the news.