Canadian Heritage committee  It's a big question for Mr. Shields.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're back in the sixties, my friend.

Canadian Heritage committee  I appreciate that. There are lots of people making money in ths system. I would like to give my remaining almost two minutes to MP Long.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks very much, Madam Chair, and thank you very much for joining us here today. It was a bold move. What were you hoping to achieve by the particular parameters of your bill? Then I'll talk about what we've seen and how it's been gutted since.

Canadian Heritage committee  Have you given any thought to what we might be able to do federally or is this all going to be in the provincial sphere? That's my first question. Second, what has, in your opinion, as the person who put the bill in the legislature in the first place, the Ford government's changi

Canadian Heritage committee  It's important. Rogers Place is a new arena in my riding within my mandate. It opened up at the beginning of my time here and it's one of the best concert venues and arenas now in the world. That's not good if people of modest or even better-than-modest means are shut out from th

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, that's very helpful, because if my memory serves me correctly, going back to when I was parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the creative sector is about 3.5% of the GDP of the country and employs about 630,000 people, and we want to see that number

Canadian Heritage committee  I just have a quick question because I probably have 20 seconds or less. Google owns YouTube. Facebook owns Instagram. Those are powerful companies. Does the part of the CRTC that you regulate and that deals with those companies need more tools from legislators to be able to do y

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, well, it's 2019, so I do have to say one thing: that I think her story, their story, his story are all histories and that when we add all of them up, they are the sum total of our combined experience that makes multiple histories. I think it's also important to say that our

Canadian Heritage committee  And we would also be asking consumers to pay.

Canadian Heritage committee  But a new tax would be more money that consumers would have to pay.

Canadian Heritage committee  In comparison with other countries, how much do Canadians, on average, pay for Internet access or phone access? Are we high, are we in the middle, are we low? Are we the best jurisdiction in the world? Where are we in the rankings?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I'm seized by the levy, as you can tell. What would the scope of the levy be and how did you come to define it in the report in the way that you did? I know you used words like “harmonize”, but what informed that approach? Is it to get everybody to the same playing field

Canadian Heritage committee  But to split the hair—30 seconds?

Canadian Heritage committee  No, it can't be true.