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View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2020-06-18 13:18
Madam Chair, I'll be sharing my time with my colleague from Berthier—Maskinongé.
I'll start with an easy question for the government. If it found $1.320 billion lying around, would it know how to use that money wisely?
View Mona Fortier Profile
Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, from the start, our priority has been to help Quebeckers and Canadians. Health and the economy were our top priorities—
View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2020-06-18 13:19
Thank you, Madam Chair. I like to see the same old platitudes interrupted.
Taxing the GAFA group would bring in over $781 million. Charging GAFA royalties for content creators, which generate billions of dollars, would bring in $540 million. These two amounts combined total $1.32 billion. These are the pre-crisis figures reported by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. We know that the GAFA group's revenue soared with the crisis.
Why is the government waiting to pick up the money lying around and to ensure justice for journalists, the media, songwriters and artists, who are struggling like never before these days, and especially for all businesses in Quebec and Canada that are paying their fair share?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
Madam Chair, I want to thank my colleague for his important question.
I want to point out that the federal government has made almost $3 billion available to the arts, culture and media sector in recent months to help it get through this crisis. We've contributed $2.5 billion through the Canada emergency response benefit and the Canada emergency wage subsidy. We've provided $500 million in emergency measures for the sector. In addition, we've committed to tabling a bill to ensure greater fairness for Canadian distributors—
View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2020-06-18 13:20
I know that my colleague, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, wants this. I know that he wants to implement a royalty system, because we've already talked about it many times.
When will the government propose a fair royalty system? It would be only fair for content creators. I'm sure that my colleague, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, agrees with this.
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
Madam Chair, my colleague and I agree on this notion of fairness.
I had committed to tabling a bill before June, but the pandemic obviously prevented this from happening. I'm committing today to tabling this bill when we return in the fall.
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