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House Hansard - 273

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 1, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Hon. Pascale St-Onge (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Lib.)
  • Feb/1/24 3:00:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to continue to work to make sure that we have news media, whether that is private media, our public broadcaster or community media, which play an essential role in every community in Canada. We have been there by increasing the payroll tax credit for newsrooms. We are currently looking at all the other measures we can take to better support the sector because we know it is essential to have quality information, particularly in order to fight misinformation and propaganda. We are still convinced that this is the right thing to do, and we are going to be there for our media.
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Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Feb/1/24 3:02:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the former CEO of the Liberal green slush fund revealed that she warned Liberals that the Prime Minister's hand-picked chair, Annette Verschuren, should not be appointed because of her conflict of interest and that green slush fund staff also told the minister of this conflict, but Liberals appointed her anyway. Then, Liberal board members went on award to their own companies more than $20 million of green slush fund money. Liberals had officials in every meeting, but did nothing about this corruption until it was in the media. Why did it take a media story for the Liberals to act on this corruption?
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