Canadian Heritage committee  I've spent a lot of time in the Abitibi region over the course of my life, and I will be pleased to go back there.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, but it is 100% Canadian from 8 p.m. to 11p.m. every night, no doubt. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune will come on from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I'm not aware of the postings you're talking about. We have rules with respect to postings and how they get to be posted. There's one thing that has to continue. CBC/Radio Canada is unfortunately losing 800 really smart people. We are going to try to reduce the number of people, through programs we have and through conversations we're having right now with our union leaders and employees.

Canadian Heritage committee  This is something we had also suggested in the concepts of our financial flexibility. This was not something that was accepted by our minister.

Canadian Heritage committee  We tried to show ways by which we could bridge this $125 million issue we have. That included backing a standard line of credit in a commercial institution and an acceleration on our future appropriations. It involved being able to sell assets we had, as you see now, and the permission to do so.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's the issue we talked about, I think in answer to Monsieur Pomerleau or Madam Lavallée. We can't use a loan to protect 800 jobs. Unless you make the funding permanent, we're going to have this issue next year.

Canadian Heritage committee  Unless the revenues go up. But in this environment we don't think there's going to be a substantial increase in advertising revenues, which I will remind you is the only revenue we have right now on the television side.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely, for the reasons I have explained.

Canadian Heritage committee  Let's talk about Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, because these are always the two programs that attract most attention because you can't miss them if you watch television on CBC in the evenings. These two properties are very important to our strategy. One, they add and bring revenues to CBC/Radio Canada that we immediately reinvest in Canadian programming.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't have those figures, but I'd be happy to send them to you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madame, if I can add one thing, we are the only network--the only network--that has Canadian programming every night, 100%, from 8 p.m. to 11p.m., because we are Canada's national public broadcaster and we believe in a Canadian schedule.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Dhalla, what I'm trying to say here today is that CBC/Radio-Canada has a really important mandate. It comes out of the act. We deliver a whole bunch of services to Canadians across the country. We have worked very hard. I have worked very hard with Minister Moore to try to engage our government in a conversation about the services that we render and about the broadcasting motto being broken.

Canadian Heritage committee  In the opening statement I made, I wanted to remind everybody that CBC/Radio-Canada, because it gets $1.1 billion or just about from the government, is not insulated from what's happening out there. The incentives and the measures that are being envisaged for the private broadcasters have to include CBC/Radio-Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to adjust one of the comments you made. We have not closed stations. We have had an issue with the definition of a station in La Ronge and in Thompson, and that's correct, because we could have...and I'll take the blame for that. They are one-person operations. They are important operations in Canada, but we have kept our footprint.

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Angus, this has been a very difficult time for us. Cuts have not been easy, and coming to the identification of 800 people, or 800 jobs, has been a very difficult exercise. When we looked at how to deliver our services to different regions we started with certain priorities, and you heard some of the priorities that we talked about.