Canadian Heritage committee  Just to add to the radio drama issue, I think there's a significant amount of radio drama still being produced, but we certainly have gone away from the type of radio drama you're talking about. What we do now--and we do it extremely well, thanks to CBC--are the adaptations of C

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess I can only say maybe that's part of the formula that in some way has to be analyzed. Again, the public value is obviously in hockey as a cultural icon of Canada. The thrill of being there last night or even a couple of nights ago--I mean, you can't get away from that, and

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, just mirroring our evaluation, and to some extent Canada Council's evaluation, of organizations, it's not necessarily a teaching function, but arts education or education about the art form or education simply about the cultural industries is part of every organization's j

Canadian Heritage committee  Perhaps I could go back to our small metaphor around the arts organizations...or the similarity in terms of how we fund various arts organizations. It's interesting, because all the same realities apply. In the different disciplines we've actually taken a look at our level of sub

Canadian Heritage committee  Judith definitely is.

Canadian Heritage committee  Perhaps I can add to that too, because I think it's interesting. It's like any arts organization that comes to us for funding. We ask for a vision statement and the mandate, and I know that's exactly what you're here to discuss, but then of course, when that vision statement is c

Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, I would say it's medium. We do have a fairly reasonable...partly because Winnipeg and Manitoba are known as hotbeds of culture. We do produce, one way or another, with or without the CBC or funding sometimes from the Manitoba Arts Council, quite extraordinary artists.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can only say that I think there is an opportunity for more partnerships between Canadian private sector producers and CBC. That certainly has been happening, and it can happen more in terms of script development as well as program development and delivery. Probably we're also

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a very serious question. Let's say this. In the not-for-profit arts, we have run into this through arts education falling off the table, and to some extent one could say that young people's experience of the arts through CBC television has been lost. A generation or two ma

Canadian Heritage committee  Perhaps I could speak to that. My background too is in the theatre and the arts. I have moved over to what they call the dark side now in terms of being a funder and working for a provincial agency; however, in my 30 years in the regions I really relied on the CBC as the kind of