Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, we never really acknowledge or file formal requests. A lot of this is sometimes informal discussion around the House to our broadcasting crew. Sometimes they go to visit the control room and bring comments. It's been at the request of the whip, but we never maintain a log of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. There is no formal mechanism. The feedback we're getting is more through CPAC and the association of broadcasters. It's more on the quality of productions. We don't really get feedback directly from the viewers.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a very good question. There is no doubt, we have been very fortunate. Since its inception 35 years ago, the board has always been very receptive to supporting the enhancements of television. From 2000 to 2004, if you recall, there was a major revamp of the complete broadcas

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We receive ratings from CPAC. They maintain excellent ratings in terms of who accesses what and when, and this and that. We have this kind of information. There is no doubt that the decision here many years ago to also stream on the Internet all the committees, whether it's

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The text comes from the order paper. That's where we get all the information from. We don't write or develop anything; everything comes from the agenda of the day and the order paper. We just take what is there and portray that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The feedback comes from the broadcasting industry. They love what we produce. They like the quality of what we produce. They find it very informative. They like the fact that it's French and English, one right after the other; it scrolls rapidly. The feedback is very good from th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. We have feedback from time to time on certain shots or certain parts of the day. We meet with whips very often who want to review the content to see if they liked, based on their choice of seating arrangements, what they saw in the shot and the angle, and whether it w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  And people have asked that we change all the screens in the lobby. I mean, there are a lot of these kinds of reactions. Normally, what I see as a serious kind of comment comes through the whip's office. They're the ones who really raise the issue and call us. They meet with the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Especially at question period, we have the list of members asking the questions, but then you have to prepare yourself for who may respond to that particular question; therefore, you may have two or three cameras at different angles to make sure we are getting ready, because we h

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Since 1992 we've been trying to provide some context of what happens in terms of the agenda of the day and to try to describe to the viewers what is happening in the House at that time. It used to be static data that we had, and we went from French to English. In consultation wit

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Guimond, as far as all of the infrastructure is concerned, we have capital replacement plans in place. We replace approximately one third of the fleet of servers each year. It can take us anywhere from three to four years to replace a server. The pro

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Guimond.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Proulx. Again, I know how passionate you are about this technology. I'm always encouraged to see a Member ask these kinds of questions. However, this is something the Board of Internal Economy discussed last year. The question was raised at the ti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely.