Canadian Heritage committee  I think the only way they would have to make a decision like that is if the CBC no longer existed, and then the shelf space for Canadian content would drop dramatically and, yes, we'd have American television on Canadian television totally, because it draws more advertising dolla

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure I understand.

Canadian Heritage committee  There will. I mean, we've proven it in the past. We've made shows. We produced Random Passage. It had 1.2 million viewers on CBC television. It was one of their most popular mini-series ever. So we're not afraid of competition. We can compete with other producers across the count

Canadian Heritage committee  I define my region as Newfoundland and Labrador. Politically speaking, in the CBC world I guess our region is Atlantic, which includes the four Atlantic provinces.

Canadian Heritage committee  St. John's gets a chunk of the TransCanada Fund, and then Halifax, New Brunswick, and P.E.I. get a chunk. So we do have that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know. It's been my experience.... I've been producing for seven years, and Paul along with me, and in that seven years I've noticed that we used to be able to go to the regional CBC and pitch an idea and get some money for development and then you'd end up going into prod

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree with that. Over the years we have gone from being the producers of CODCO, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Random Passage,Above & Beyond, and in this past 12-month period, all of a sudden our development dollars are $65,000 for the year for our region, and we've had 18 month

Canadian Heritage committee  On the former TransCanada Development Fund, which is now the Program Development Fund, we met with the local CBC the other day, because we've been finding over the past year that there's been kind of a disconnect between local producers and CBC locally and nationally in terms of

Canadian Heritage committee  Sorry about that. We feel that while the current mandate is vital and its implementation critical, we are concerned about the lack of specifics in regard to both the prioritizing of CBC's various programming objectives and direct mention of specific genres of programming activit

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm a Newfoundlander, I can't slow down.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I'm representing the Film Producers Association of Newfoundland, PAN, as we call it. PAN was formed in 1989 to develop the resources necessary to support film and television producers in this province. We advocate to various levels of government and to industry partners,