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View T.J. Harvey Profile
Lib. (NB)
View T.J. Harvey Profile
2018-06-07 14:45 [p.20450]
Mr. Speaker, for residents in my riding of Tobique—Mactaquac, CBC/Radio-Canada is an essential part of their lives, providing them with local news, Canadian stories, and high-quality Canadian productions.
We all remember how the Harper government slashed CBC/Radio-Canada's budget.
Could the Minister of Canadian Heritage tell the House what our government is doing to keep our public broadcaster strong?
View Mélanie Joly Profile
Lib. (QC)
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Tobique—Mactaquac for his question.
Now more than ever, our government firmly believes in the importance of our public broadcaster. When we talk about CBC/Radio-Canada, we cannot help but remember the Conservatives' legacy.
The Conservatives slashed funds at the CBC, were at war with it, and did everything to weaken our public broadcaster. That is their record. Our record is reinvesting $675 million and appointing a CEO from the sector, the first woman, as head of this very important institution.
We will ensure that what the Harper Conservatives did never happens again, because they would, if given the chance.
View Gérard Deltell Profile
CPC (QC)
View Gérard Deltell Profile
2018-03-29 12:02 [p.18264]
Mr. Speaker, all Canadians love our national anthem, O Canada.
Unfortunately, I have noticed over the past few months that CBC and Radio-Canada no longer broadcast our national anthem at 5 a.m., as they did in the past.
Why is that? When I asked, I was told that it is because they are on the air 24 hours a day. That is not an adequate response, because they have been on the air 24 hours a day since 1995, yet they stopped playing our national anthem only a few months ago.
Does the Liberal government agree with us? One minute a day for our public broadcaster to play O Canada is not too much to ask. It would in fact be welcome.
View Arif Virani Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Arif Virani Profile
2018-03-29 12:03 [p.18264]
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's question.
We are standing up for the CBC, which is why we reinvested $675 million. We are also defending our national anthem. We always take pride in the changes, initiated by Mauril Bélanger, to the lyrics of the national anthem. Now that they are gender neutral, they are more inclusive and better reflect diversity. This is an important symbol for us.
View Rona Ambrose Profile
CPC (AB)
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has not succeeded yet.
The CBC receives more than a billion dollars a year from taxpayers. Now it is looking for an extra $400 million a year. That would mean another $46 for every man, woman, and child in this country, money that Canadians cannot afford. We are already $30 billion in deficit, and we cannot afford to keep spending. Will the Prime Minister assure Canadian families that they will not be on the hook for this, do the right thing, and just say no?
View Justin Trudeau Profile
Lib. (QC)
View Justin Trudeau Profile
2016-11-30 14:28 [p.7435]
Mr. Speaker, once again, the Conservatives have demonstrated that they do not understand the importance of cultural industries, of artists, and of creators, not just to Canadian identity but to growing the economy. The fact is that investing in the stories that bind us together as a nation, in both official languages, ensuring that Canadians understand each other's lives and experiences, is at the heart of the mandate of the CBC. Listening to Canadians is exactly why we are on this side of the House, and the Conservatives are stuck in opposition.
View Peter Van Loan Profile
CPC (ON)
View Peter Van Loan Profile
2016-11-30 15:03 [p.7442]
Mr. Speaker, standing up for our constituents is what we were sent here to do.
Just months ago, the Liberals gave the CBC $675 million on top of the $1 billion-a-year it already gets. The CBC now says it is not enough. It wants another third of a billion dollars-a-year, and more from hard-pressed Canadian taxpayers.
When it comes to the CBC, it seems it is just never enough. The Liberals say they are open to this request from their friends.
Will someone over there finally take the side of taxpayers, and halt the convoy of Brink's trucks to the CBC?
View Mélanie Joly Profile
Lib. (QC)
Mr. Speaker, I must remind the hon. member that we reinvested $675 million in CBC/Radio-Canada because there were important cuts in the past 10 years that really negatively affected our public broadcaster.
I would also advise my colleague in front that we just did public consultations on Canadian content. The reality is that members of the NDP and the Bloc participated in the consultations, but nobody from the Conservative Party participated.
We clearly heard that Canadians love—
View Peter Van Loan Profile
CPC (ON)
View Peter Van Loan Profile
2016-11-29 14:53 [p.7387]
Mr. Speaker, in 2001, one-quarter of the CBC's funding was from advertising. However, this has fallen in recent years as advertisers are abandoning CBC programs. Today it seems only around 15% of revenues come from advertisers. Taxpayers are now being asked to make this failure into a virtue.
What is the solution? Another one-third of a billion dollars per year from the poor beleaguered taxpayer and a guaranteed annual increase in the CBC subsidy forever.
Does the government agree with the CBC president that its business model is “profoundly and irrevocably broken?”
View Mélanie Joly Profile
Lib. (QC)
Mr. Speaker, we just reinvested $675 million in the CBC. We also decided to launch important public consultations on how to support Canadian content in a digital age.
What we heard in these public consultations was that Canadians loved the CBC. Thirty thousand people participated in these public consultations. Hundreds of people submitted ideas and reports. I understand the CBC submitted its own report. We will be studying all submissions and we will—
View Peter Van Loan Profile
CPC (ON)
View Peter Van Loan Profile
2016-11-29 14:54 [p.7388]
Apparently, Mr. Speaker, all that money is not working. Canadians look for high-quality Canadian content from the CBC, but fewer are watching. In 2001, the CBC drew almost 10% of the prime time audience. Today, that number is close to 6% as viewers tune out.
No wonder ad revenue is in free fall. The CBC has a solution. Taxpayers can be conscripted to replace ad revenue. After all, when Liberal spending is out of control, what is one-third of a billion dollars between friends?
Do the Liberals really plan on rewarding falling viewership by giving the CBC even more taxpayer money?
View Mélanie Joly Profile
Lib. (QC)
Mr. Speaker, we understand that the media and the entertainment sectors are facing important challenges because of technological changes that are affecting how people consume information and entertainment. That was why we decided to look into the entire federal policy tool kit to adapt it to the digital age. Our entire federal policy tool kit does not take into consideration the Internet and the Broadcasting Act. All different levels within Heritage Canada were developed under the Mulroney era.
View Sylvie Boucher Profile
CPC (QC)
Mr. Speaker, during the many consultations held by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, CBC/Radio Canada asked the government to provide an additional $400 million and to depoliticize its funding by indexing it to inflation
I imagine that the minister will grant all the corporation's requests because, as she herself said, “That's easy: Radio-Canada”.
Is this government going to play Santa Claus for its friends and unfairly spend another $400 million of taxpayers' money?
View Mélanie Joly Profile
Lib. (QC)
Mr. Speaker, as we have often said, we announced during the election campaign that we would be investing $675 million in CBC/Radio-Canada and that is what we did. Why? Because we wanted to make up for the Conservative cuts of the past 10 years, and because Canadians believe in a strong public broadcaster. That said, I also initiated important public consultations in which 30,000 people participated. Therefore, in 2017, I will present a new plan revising our approach to the media—
View Kevin Waugh Profile
CPC (SK)
View Kevin Waugh Profile
2016-01-25 16:18 [p.376]
Madam Speaker, congratulations to the hon. member. I have a couple of questions. The CRTC today held meetings with broadcasters saying that, by the year 2020, half the local stations now existing in Canada will no longer exist.
It is interesting that you are going to put more money into arts and culture, which we all like, but you also mentioned the CBC. Today, Rogers announced it will be reducing its staff by 200 members as of February. Bell Media announced that in November and December 380 employees left. We have had two newspapers disappear in the last week, one today in Guelph and the other in Nanaimo, B.C.
On behalf of the deputy critic for heritage, I am wondering, with the increase in CBC funding, where you are going to put this money. On this side of the House we are very anxious when we see the media in Canada evaporate, yet you are putting more money toward the CBC.
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