Canadian Heritage committee  I would add that the revenue that comes to the CTF from the BDU's revenue, that 5% that everybody talks about, 80% of that 5% comes to the Canadian Television Fund. For the other 20%, those BDUs are allowed to contribute to their own funds. One other example that comes to mind

Canadian Heritage committee  That's just the stakeholders' report so far. The annual report is coming next.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll just assure you, Mr. Scott, that the aspect of regional activity remains one of the requirements of the contribution agreement. One of the ways we try to encourage that to happen is it is a factor weighed in the BPE system. If you look at the success of Canadian television

Canadian Heritage committee  I would just add that one of the concerns Mr. Shaw continued to raise in his campaign was that a lot of money is spent on programs at the CTF and there are simply no audiences for them. We demonstrated quite well, I think, in our presentation to the CRTC that in fact numerous pro

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. It depends totally on the type of programming that's done, because it's the producer who has a show, in whatever genre is being produced, who will go to the broadcaster with the mandate closest to what the show is about to try to seek a licence. Whether that's public

Canadian Heritage committee  The emphasis on the private fund in the report tries to direct criteria that would predetermine what a hit would be, and that's a very difficult thing. It's almost impossible to predetermine the success of a program in this business. Corner Gas would be an example of that. I was

Canadian Heritage committee  Historically, the growth revenue on the broadcast distribution side was actually 9% last year, but it has averaged about 7% on an annual basis. We budget very conservatively. We only strike a program budget that's based on the actual revenue that we know we had from the BDUs in t

Canadian Heritage committee  You go ahead. You've got the paper and numbers in front of you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, in terms of the question on a planning process. Up until now, at least, the Canadian Television Fund has always received its contribution from the federal government on an annual basis only. With the exception of the crisis year, we've never been notified that our funding

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't see when Paul or Stéphane are going to speak, so I didn't want to jump in on top of them. As we look at this, if we step back and look at a bigger-picture policy question, the question for us at the CTF is always what it is we're trying to achieve. As we mentioned in ou

Canadian Heritage committee  They have stopped monthly contribution payments as of the date of the letters that were issued by both individual BDUs. They are currently not making monthly contributions. We don't know what they will do in the fall. As the chair has said, the regulations require them to pay in

Canadian Heritage committee  The overall saving to the industry was approximately $3 million in reductions of staff, which was put into the programming budgets.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of the $100 million, your question is really whether that is enough? The problem with the production of Canadian television in this country is that it is very difficult for the broadcaster to make that production and get a return on investment because of the challenge we