Kerry Diotte

C-243 Mr. Speaker, my private members' bill, Bill, is being read for the second time today. It is a common-sense bill that would lessen the anguish of people who have had loved ones stolen from them by murder. This Conservative bill would reduce annual parole hearings for murderers from every year to every five years. Parole hearings are traumatizing. This would be a compassionate law supporting [more]

Mr. Speaker, June 15, 2012, was a dark day in Edmonton. A young man named Brian Ilesic was one of three armoured-car guards who were murdered. The other victims were Michelle Shegelski, Eddie Rejano, and Matthew Schuman. As they serviced ATMs in the Hub Mall on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton, their co-worker, Travis Baumgartner, shot and killed Brian, Michelle and Eddie. Baumgartner [more]

Let's open it up to others. How do we strike that balance? Again, we want media to survive, but we don't want people to think that you're bought and paid for. Would anybody care to figure out the best way to do that?

Thanks, Madam Chair. Just to give you a bit of background, I was a journalist for 30 years. There are several around the table here. I worked in radio, TV, magazines and newspapers. Back in the glory days, we were very, very opposed to taking any government money. I worked at a tabloid for most of my life. We said, “No, we want to be independent; we don't want to be undermined by looking like [more]

Yes. We have Madam Carignan.

Pierre Poilievre Getting back to the bigger issue of fairness and balance in news, you mentioned at one point that CBC management actually prevented you from interviewing Conservative leaderon your show. Can you describe what happened there?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Dhanraj, I found your testimony quite fascinating. I myself was a journalist for 30 years. I was also the national director of the Canadian Association of Journalists. Journalism has indeed changed. You noted that you used to sit down and listen to Knowlton Nash as a trusted voice. As a kid, I remember watching Lloyd Robertson. Peter Kent, Stanley Burke.... [more]

I'll be taking the two minutes. Mr. Fegelman, it was very interesting when you indicated that a CBC executive said the network shouldn't refer to Hamas as a terrorist group even though the Government of Canada has recognized them as a terrorist group since 2002. Why should the public be alarmed at this?