Canadian Heritage committee  I'll come to that. I just want to say something about northern Ontario and one of the things we're looking at. In various ways, it has been very important for me to reach out to communities. In fact, the week after my nomination was made, for example, other colleagues would hav

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I haven't.

Canadian Heritage committee  I will be looking at it. It's in the pile on my desk. Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd just say that Harvest Queens came out of our emerging filmmaker program.

Canadian Heritage committee  I worked for years in the documentary world. I can tell you that documentary filmmakers, by nature, are never satisfied. That is the way they are. There are always problems in the world and society is always facing challenges. But there are specific challenges in terms of funding

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure what that 2% refers to, first of all. If we're talking about simply ratings and it's coming from broadcast figures, I'd say it's questionable. I'd have to do the analysis. Frankly, no, 2% ain't good. It ain't good enough for me. It's not something I would be happy ab

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. First, with respect to planning, for almost a year we have been reviewing everything related to performance indicators. This is very important to us for a number of reasons. Every day, I am very conscious of the fact that it is a privilege to be there to serve the Can

Canadian Heritage committee  I started last week. We will get back to this, but the process has already started. There are things we are looking at; our broad outlines are clear. I am new to the job, and everything we are doing is possible because my predecessor did great work. Jacques Bensimon, when he was

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll take the distribution question first. You know, it's an enormous preoccupation for us. I will say that nearly everything gets on television. But when you sit down in front of your television and you have the 100-plus channels, depending on your various cable packages, the

Canadian Heritage committee  No, no, but even with CBC, when they're looking at—right now we're in discussions again with CBC. So many of the things we do end up on CBC, but I have to tell you they also end up—I looked at a list of things we're doing with Global, and over the last two years they've opened up

Canadian Heritage committee  We have a very different role. I wish to make clear that the legislated mandate of the film board is to serve Canadians. It's not to be of direct assistance to an industry as such. So I'm very mindful of that, that everything we do has to be in service of Canadians, that we hav

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a good question, because one of the pillars of programming at the film board is working with la relève. In fact, when I arrived at the National Film Board five and half years ago, I found a system that I thought wasn't working so well, because they were sort of thrown into

Canadian Heritage committee  It is true that we are in a financial downturn. That is clear. We will take action to work with this situation. I can explain exactly what we want to do, as I did when I talked about what we plan on doing in the next six months. We can present a strategic and operational action p

Canadian Heritage committee  I have had this job for one week. I cannot answer concretely in detail, but I can say that within five or six months I will have all these plans, because we are in the process of planning.