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House Hansard - 273

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 1, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)
  • Feb/1/24 2:59:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Canadian Heritage opened the door to additional federal funding for Radio-Canada, even though the public broadcaster is about to announce the elimination of 600 positions. A number of analysts believe that the cuts planned by CEO Catherine Tait were premature, possibly even excessive, and clearly unfair to the francophone side of the network. Will the minister insist that CBC/Radio-Canada cancel these ill-timed layoffs before it receives any additional funding?
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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
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Feb/1/24 3:54:51 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I want to start with the fact that the hon. member started her intervention talking about the socialist coalition, which makes me think she does not understand what socialism is or what a coalition is. I also want to say that from my perspective, what I see is both the Liberals and the Conservatives supporting big oil time and time again. I thought of a few other names. We have the “corporate coalition”, the “corrupt coalition”, the “co-opted by big oil coalition”, which, in fact, is CBC. We could use CBC as an acronym. Why does the member always side with big oil and never with the people in Canada who expect our oil and gas companies to pay their fair share?
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Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Mr. Bernard Généreux
  • Feb/1/24 5:10:57 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, anyone who accuses me of spreading misinformation is spreading misinformation. Our leader has been very clear: There are no plans to make cuts to Radio-Canada. Making cuts to CBC is one thing. CBC/Radio-Canada are one and the same. However, within CBC/Radio-Canada, there will be no cuts to Radio-Canada. We are even considering eventually adding money for the Canadian francophonie across Canada. The Bloc Québécois is doing everything it can to make us believe that cutting taxes in Canada will have no effect on Quebeckers' wallets. That is absolutely untrue. There is no question that this will put money in the pockets of all Canadians, including Quebeckers.
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