Information & Ethics committee  Our reporters and journalistic resources have their jobs to do, and no one will tell them what to write. Is that clear enough? Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  I read yesterday, in sort of a “get the facts” type of piece related to us, in a quite highly surprising attack on our company, which is a highly respectable company, that we send letters to the Prime Minister of Canada. This is completely false. The letter that I sent was to t

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry, sir, do you want me to answer your question?

Information & Ethics committee  I sent one letter mentioning that I'd been talking to...and sending letters. In fact, there were 17 letters being sent to Hubert Lacroix. My job, as the CEO of Quebecor Media, is to make sure that we have the appropriate proportion of our advertising in Canada. Since our media

Information & Ethics committee  We've been seeing many other institutions in public life advertising in our paper, the only exception being Radio-Canada/CBC.

Information & Ethics committee  And this has taken place over the last few years.

Information & Ethics committee  Before, CBC/Radio-Canada had been advertising in our papers--

Information & Ethics committee  --because they knew very well that those papers reached appropriate audiences.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee, good morning. My name is Pierre Karl Péladeau. I am the President and Chief Executive Officer of Quebecor, Quebecor Media and Sun Media Corporation. We want to thank the committee members for the opportunity to

Canadian Heritage committee  I was not there 40 years ago, but I can say that there was no such thing as many of the alternatives citizens in Canada now have for the chance to use to inform themselves or to be entertained. Today is a new reality. The CRTC was there to regulate something that was awarded on a

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, we're not CBC/Radio Canada. We need to make sure that our business will be profitable. At the end of the day, if it's not profitable, it will die. We're certainly not here to make that happen. Therefore, we will work very hard to make sure that our shareholders, at the end

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to comment briefly on the statements of the Minister of Culture—not necessarily Ms. St-Pierre, but her predecessors—as well as on statements made by the Minister of Finance. In Quebec, we are discriminated against when it comes to securing tax credits. Even though we mak

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely, and again, with the fees they've been regulating for the last few years, especially on the specialty side, it is a body, at the end of the day, that will decide how profitable the specialty channels will be on a carriage basis. On tier three, or on category B, which i

Canadian Heritage committee  As I noted in my presentation, we are great believers in Canadian content. We invest significantly in this area and hope to be able to continue doing so. However, as I tried to explain, we must be in a position to continue benefiting from the system and from structures that allow

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I don't refer to Star Académie as having any relationship with local--