Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean just the general policy of appointments?

Canadian Heritage committee  It was an interview process that I went through.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's my understanding.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Canadian Heritage committee  As you know, CBC and Radio-Canada are online right now. So the big challenge is how to turn that into a commercial revenue stream that is substantial. It's very small at this point in time. I think that's the challenge for all broadcasters. Rather than having to give it away, how

Canadian Heritage committee  It was a question and answer process, with a number of questions that I was asked to complete. It followed with an oral interview over the telephone. It went on for, I would say, the better part of 30 minutes.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  For me, it's very early on to answer that question, but I would say there's a concerted effort, particularly at the radio level, to really get out there and enhance the regional offer. There's no doubt when you have a consolidation, as CBC has experienced, that they have had to d

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me say that my first involvement with CBC was my first board meeting in Vancouver at the beginning of May. This is a very fine group of people who are representing this country and who are giving of their time, at the board level, to provide the direction to senior management

Canadian Heritage committee  As you know, I have no background in broadcasting. Presently, I'm involved in the aviation services group. It's a company called Skyservice, started by my partner, Russell Payson, 21 years ago in Montreal. He's grown it from 11 employees to about 1,500 employees today. My involve

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak to that with great knowledge, but I can tell you that the—

Canadian Heritage committee  All I know is that the big effort right now--and there's a paper that has been tabled by senior management with the Ministry of Heritage--is to consider providing local radio. There are about six million Canadians in this country who don't get their local radio. It comes as a fee

Canadian Heritage committee  From a challenge in business perspective, my background has been involved with lots of what I call “turnaround situations”.

Canadian Heritage committee  Are you asking me to compare the model of PBS funding with Canadian funding?

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right.