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Member of Parliament

Martin Shields

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Bow River
  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $127,198.82

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Context: House Hansard - 217 - Jun/20/23
Mr. Martin Shields (Bow River, CPC)
  • Jun/20/23 8:05:10 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-18 
Madam Speaker, in my riding there are 13 weekly newspapers. The NDP voted against a number of them receiving it because one person is the proprietor, owner and reporter. The NDP voted against our amendment to support small local media in my riding. I think the MP from Saskatchewan would probably respond, as it is similar in her riding, but the NDP voted against that.
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Context: House Hansard - 217 - Jun/20/23
Mr. Martin Shields (Bow River, CPC)
  • Jun/20/23 1:17:24 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-18 
Madam Speaker, I appreciate my hon. colleague's work on the committee, but I remember that the Conservatives put forward an amendment to have one newspaper reporter. He lists many papers, and they are not the non-daily papers in my riding. I have many who are single, yet he voted against having a single reporter qualify for this. He takes great pride in talking about the worker bees and that we got it to one and a half but I am asking this: What about the ones in my riding? There are not any of the papers he has named in my riding. He has named papers in major cities, not in the small communities that I support. Why did he vote against our amendment to support the small weekly papers like in my riding?
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Context: House Hansard - 217 - Jun/20/23
Mr. Martin Shields (Bow River, CPC)
  • Jun/20/23 12:30:46 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-18 
Madam Speaker, I appreciate the member for Drummond. On the committee, we shared similar philosophies and asked lots of questions. The member has many small communities in his riding, as I do. We heard that of most of the money, maybe upwards of $350 million, 70% to 85% had already been negotiated to go to the big guys, like Bell, Rogers and CBC. What does the member think might be left for our small publishers, like the one-reporter papers? The Conservative motion to support those was voted against. What does the member think might be left for some of the small papers with one journalist, which I know he has in his riding?
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