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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 2:59:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I think the president of CBC/Radio-Canada made it clear that the announcements she made took into account the public broadcaster's current financial situation. We know how important Radio-Canada is to Quebec. That is why we are currently assessing how we can better support CBC/Radio-Canada and ensure its survival not just for this fiscal year, but for the long term. Obviously, my goal is to protect jobs at both Radio-Canada and CBC.
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Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)
  • Feb/1/24 3:00:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I like that. That is a good answer. We share the same objective of protecting jobs. Demanding that CBC maintain the 600 jobs it has decided to cut is the least they can do before doling out any part of the public federal budget, any amount of money. There is also the question of fairness to our private broadcasters, who are struggling even more. Both Bell and TVA have cut hundreds of jobs, and then with Meta blocking news stories, the entire news sector is hurting. So we are all for supporting the CBC, as long as the jobs are protected. However, is the minister also going to do her job to help all our broadcasters, all our written online news media, as much as the public broadcaster?
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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
Hon. Pascale St-Onge (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Lib.)
  • Feb/1/24 3:05:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right. Quebeckers and Canadians are deeply attached to our culture. We like watching our films and television shows because we are so proud of who we are and of our stories. That is why I was so pleased to announce yesterday that we are boosting Telefilm Canada's budget by $50 million so it can keep producing quality content here in Canada. We know the Conservatives will make cuts to culture and our public broadcaster, just as they did under the Harper government. Here on this side of the House, we will continue to support the industry because it provides 180,000 jobs and it is very important.
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