“Mr. Speaker, surviving in the world of Canadian and Quebec productions requires existing in the first place. The problem we have right now is that these platforms have invaded, and they are getting much more visibility. We have been hearing all day that anyone can put a song on YouTube and promote it, but will not be able to live off it. It takes a structure. It takes a cultural ecosystem. We need that money to reinvest in our local media everywhere. I have a question for my colleague. All day long, we have been hearing that CUSMA was about to be negotiated and that this was no time to put a tax on the Americans, that we had to give in and not put anything in place to prevent that. My question is this. Is it not time to stand up for ourselves? Over the past year, the Liberal government has shown that giving in on everything has given us nothing. I am thinking of taxing web giants and waiving tariffs. We have gained nothing and have had new tariffs imposed to boot. Let us take responsibility. Let us put in place the taxes we need. Then we can sit down and negotiate with the Americans. What does my colleague think about that?”
Statement grade
B
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 80. The grade is held to 79, 30 above Signal.
79 / 100, held down by Signal
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 42 wordsI certainly agree with my Bloc colleague on how bad the Liberals have been on their trade negotiations with the United States for the master negotiator to have achieved absolutely nothing so far except giving up elements of Canadian sovereignty and wealth.Procedure · 18 wordsHowever, the member raised the issue of the money that the CRTC says it is going to create.ProcedureReasoning · 8 wordsOf course, that is what a tax does, Positioning · 69 wordsbut I fail to understand why it is believed in the House, or why any rational person would believe, that this is free money and that all of a sudden these big companies are just going to voluntarily not pass those costs on but say, “You know what, we should help out Canadian content.We’ll just do this out of the goodness of our heart because we’re a charity.”PositioningClaims · 8 wordsThey are not charities.They are private enterprises.1Reasoning · 62 wordsAs much as I want Canadians to compete on the big streaming services, I want to give every content creator across any platform who wants to educate or to offer entertainment around the world the same opportunity, Vague promiseand not just let the big players take advantage of a system that is so confusing for everybody who tries to deal with the CRTC.
