Canadian Heritage committee  A rubber hits the road type of answer to your question, which Paul brought up before, is that essentially, given that we don't know what the criteria of a public stream would be, there is always the possibility that certain programs--which would have to apply to both funds--might

Canadian Heritage committee  Could I add a couple of points where there were some disconnects? We have to bear in mind that this fund is about supporting under-represented genres: drama, children's programs, variety programs, and documentaries. Some suggestions were made at the hearing that, for example, i

Canadian Heritage committee  To give you an indication, over the last five years, starting in 2003-04, it has grown from $119 million to $127 million, to $138 million, to $149 million, to $165 million last year in 2007-08. It has been a steady growth of contribution from the BDUs to the CTF over those past f

Canadian Heritage committee  And the BPE system represents about 95% of our total funding allocations.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is a competitive system, which is by genre and language between the different broadcasters. We have four performance factor weights: historic access that we've talked about, audience success, regional licensing, and above average licensing. There's an incentive there for broad

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it does. It is the sum of the two: CBC and Radio-Canada, as well as the affiliates like RDI, Newsworld, and so on.

Canadian Heritage committee  SRC receives $32 million and CBC receives $62 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  Under our contribution agreement with Canadian Heritage, our funding is divided two thirds to English-language projects and one third to French-language projects.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was just calculating $96 million from the government's contribution of $120 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  The division of the funding into two sections aside, there are the recommendations from the CRTC report last year. It recommended that all the special initiatives that we support, like French-language productions outside Quebec, productions in aboriginal languages, project develo

Canadian Heritage committee  Simulations give results that vary somewhat. In some, the cumulative shortfall over five years could be more than $100 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  That is what we said at the outset.

Canadian Heritage committee  The contribution agreement with the Department of Canadian Heritage presently applies to our funding as a whole. The contribution agreement stipulates that 37% of Canadian Television Fund resources will be allocated to CBC/Radio-Canada. So that means 37% of all funding from publi

Canadian Heritage committee  In dollar terms, that would be so; in percentage terms, it would be in the order of 75% to 80% of the public-sector fund.

Canadian Heritage committee  With less competition from American sources and less fragmentation of audiences, the Quebec market has had tremendous success with its domestically-produced content. The CTF continues to play a very important role in sustaining the dominant position of Canadian-produced content i