Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't think you'd do it through playing old films. What you need to do is invest in more drama. That means investing in more actors. As for your question about teaching, I think all television teaches. The question is, what does it teach?

Canadian Heritage committee  I find that difficult to answer, because there are avid hockey fans in my family, and especially when hockey is on every night for the playoffs, I just go and read. I really don't know how to answer that. Hockey is such a Canadian thing that even though I never watch it, I don'

Canadian Heritage committee  In the first place, I don't think the private channels would contribute to that. I don't watch the other ones very often, but they're not really that impressive. I think the Canadian content rules should be applied and kept, and the CBC should be fulfilling the mandate as it's la

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't see why there has to be a choice between drama and the news. We used to have both. Why would there be a choice?

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I think so.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it could represent Manitoba better than it does, but it does broadcast the MCO and the WSO coast to coast. Most of the programs I listen to happen to be programs that are broadcast nationally, so Douglas may know more about this. I mean, we get news about Manitoba, an

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I think it should go back to producing drama, because that has helped actors all across the country and has made them known to other Canadians. I think the one-hour newscast is a good thing. And I made the same point about American television being brutalizing. One of the

Canadian Heritage committee  One thing the CBC can do is to employ more Canadians. I don't think we can do much about the swamping of television by Americans. You are so lucky in Quebec that you don't have to do that. But if we could employ the artist, I think that would be one step in the direction against

Canadian Heritage committee  Wouldn't the artist sign a contract, as they do now? I don't think the Manitoba Arts Council would be acting as some sort of impresario. The individual artist would negotiate with the CBC, just as they do now, and as I think they do for any broadcasting system anywhere. Douglas

Canadian Heritage committee  I just wanted to see who you were, as I have no sense of the direction of sound. So that's you there? Okay.

Canadian Heritage committee  Douglas, you could answer that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Unfortunately.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said, I think it provides them with a national forum. If you listen to Cross Country Checkup on a Sunday afternoon, people are phoning in from all over the country. The same thing happened with Peter Gzowski; people from different parts of the country talked to each other, a

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure what you mean, Tina.