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Marc Miller

Liberal on Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 2 2026-06-01

59 words · 5 sentences · 5 clauses

Replying to Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Bloc Québécois)

“Madam Speaker, the media industry is going through a crisis right now. The government had introduced a levy in July but ultimately did not go forward with it. The government believed that would put it in a better position to negotiate tariffs with the Americans. That plan failed. Later on, the economic update failed to include anything to support local and regional French-language news outlets. In my region, the Lower St. Lawrence, TVA Group has seen its staff at the station shrink from 30 to eight in the space of two years. Local and regional news coverage is being eroded, yet the latest economic update contains nothing to support these news outlets. Can the minister tell us what he is planning to do right now? The crisis is only getting worse.”

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Madam Speaker, Claims · 59 wordsthat is not true. I would encourage the member opposite to look at the journalism tax credit proposals that are going to be examined and applied in the audiovisual sector.¹ They represent a significant investment in audiovisual newsrooms. He should just ask the news group he mentioned. They will tell him that this news has been extremely well received.

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1“journalism tax credit proposals that are going to be examined and applied in the audiovisual sector”The Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 2 (Bill C-31) contains journalism tax credit proposals to be examined and applied in the audiovisual sector.search

Analysed on 2026-10-20