Official Languages committee  I will add perhaps simply that not only is it monitored, but certainly on Radio Canada—and I think it's the same thing at CBC—we have also managers who have been in fact assigned the responsibility of working with our teams to ensure that it is monitored. Every time that we have

Official Languages committee  No, it's not an advantage. Doing that certainly does not reduce our costs. Naturally, we can't just broadcast a program like this one without some sort of packaging. Another thing to keep in mind is that there is no advertising on ICI Radio-Canada Première. The network is not a s

Official Languages committee  The decisions we had to make this year are final. We had to make the difficult decision to abolish local animation on Espace Musique, and I do not see that decision being reversed. We hoped to carry out this project in several steps. We even hoped to add musical programming to th

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much.

Official Languages committee  I will pass on the compliment.

Official Languages committee  If I may, I will provide an example. We are perfectly aware of this transition period I was talking about earlier. On the one hand, we have a generation that is still very loyal and uses traditional platforms to consume media and entertainment content. On the other hand, we have

Official Languages committee  Radio is its own medium, as is television. This is working in the case of Tout le monde en parle because the show is based on conversation. That program is not based on visual content, but on conversation. What defines the radio is the human voice, the conversation, the exchange

Official Languages committee  I was going to add that the choices about what to keep on the air, once they're on the air, are exactly as Hubert was describing. One of the issues however is getting them on the air. As you certainly know, we don't produce drama in-house. Drama, and all fiction in fact, is prod

Official Languages committee  Certainly we have the right people. I think the problem is that for the traditional platforms—and I don't know if Hubert wants to get into that—the whole distribution network is a very heavy one for the traditional platforms, and it certainly is a very costly one, one for which w

Official Languages committee  Sure, but I'll tell you something. I heard this very clearly during the consultation in Edmonton that I just came back from. We spoke to about 400 people. Some of them were listening to us on the Web. We had about 100 people in the room in Edmonton, and the rest of the people wer

Official Languages committee  Certainly what I can tell you is that when I was talking earlier about our relationship with some of the universities, francophone universities in Quebec and colleges outside of Quebec, we work with Université de Moncton. We work with Université de Sudbury and, here in Ottawa, wi

Official Languages committee  Thank you. We do work with the universities. We in fact have programs where we create internships, with Université Laval, in Quebec City; with Université de Montréal. We use internship programs to ensure we have young people coming in to get training on how Radio-Canada does bu

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Hubert. Indeed, it's about choices, as you mentioned. For some time now we have been hearing minority francophone communities tell us that they need to be represented in a more regular, more sustained way on our airwaves. Over the past year we have put in place a thr