Canadian Heritage committee  If I may, I guess what you're asking is why Bill C-11 matters to us. We share the longest international border with the most dominant power and most prolific producer of entertainment content in the world, and for better or for worse, American content has an incredible influence over our culture.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that in our brief we're talking more about news. If you want to talk about jobs in the cultural sector in general, I think there are other people.... The DGC spoke to this last week, about the declining sector, and I think the CMPA can speak well to it, too. I'm happy to speak about news, but I get the impression that you are trying to speak more about the cultural sector in general.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. I'm going to switch to good evening now, Madam Chair. Honourable members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of you in advance of this bill's arrival at committee but for those I have not met, my name, again, is Marla Boltman, and I am the new executive director of Friends.