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House Hansard - 246

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 3, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 246 - Nov/3/23
Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)
  • Nov/3/23 11:38:28 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, a full-blown atomic bomb has dropped on the world of Quebec television. TVA—
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Context: House Hansard - 246 - Nov/3/23
Mr. Martin Champoux
Madam Speaker, a full-blown atomic bomb has dropped on the world of Quebec television. TVA, the most-watched television network in Quebec, will be laying off 547 people, a third of its workforce. We are losing extraordinary artisans of our culture. It is catastrophic. It is catastrophic, but not surprising, unfortunately. If this is happening to TVA, all of our media are at risk. We have to rethink everything, if we want to save our media. A massive undertaking is needed. Does the Minister of Canadian Heritage seriously think that Bills C-11 and C-18 are enough to save Quebec media?
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Context: House Hansard - 246 - Nov/3/23
Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)
  • Nov/3/23 11:40:16 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the hundreds of job losses at TVA will inevitably impact news in the regions. There will be fewer journalists, fewer editors, fewer studios, less airtime, and smaller teams with fewer resources. Add to that the fact that print and local media are in crisis, and we have the perfect recipe for our regions to fall off the radar. Meanwhile, it is clear that the Online News Act is about to hit a wall. What will the Minister of Canadian Heritage do to protect television, radio and newspaper news outside major urban centres?
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Context: House Hansard - 246 - Nov/3/23
Mr. Martin Champoux
  • Nov/3/23 12:39:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. My colleague's speech is very interesting. Committee reports deserve to be debated, and those debates deserve to be heard. I am just wondering how many members are interested in the speech. I would ask the Chair to verify whether we have quorum today.
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Context: House Hansard - 246 - Nov/3/23
Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)
  • Nov/3/23 1:18:59 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to come back to the discussion that the Chair had on previous points of order and the things we can or cannot say in the House, such as implying that a colleague is not telling the truth or that a party lacks courage. I would sincerely appreciate some clarification. When it is proven that colleagues are saying things that are not true and that are known to be false, am I to understand that, as members of Parliament, who are meant to hold the government to account for its actions and to denounce comments made by another opposition party, we have no way of doing so in the House, since we are not allowed to say that what a colleague is saying is false? I would sincerely like some clarification on this, because I get the impression that, for some time now, we have been somewhat limited in our scope of action and our flexibility, particularly in our choice of words.
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