Canadian Heritage committee  I agree with most of the industry. When you move Little Mosque on the Prairie, the involvement in the regions.... If you have a good idea from Winnipeg or Regina and you bring it there.... You could bring a good idea from Toronto to here. What you have to be conscious of as the n

Canadian Heritage committee  No. We have to win that battle to work together. That's my feeling.

Canadian Heritage committee  Quebec is a worldwide success story in terms of its content. Six million people--they're at Cannes; they're all over the world. In Las Vegas, there's Cirque du Soleil and there's Céline Dion. They're a huge success, and I think we want that expertise. But we also want to exchange

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean in the community, or what is just happening?

Canadian Heritage committee  I think cuts to funding from CBC in the regions just happened. They cut it in Montreal and in the regions as well. My argument has always been that you have twenty cards and I have one card, so let's each cut ourselves one card. We both lose a card, but you still have nineteen c

Canadian Heritage committee  In the overall envelope, it's two-thirds English, one-third French. The French envelope is about $80 million. We get about 10% of that, $8 million of that. Of the $200 million, $8 million goes for francophones outside of Quebec. It's a bit higher than that. When we negotiated the

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, no—

Canadian Heritage committee  The big scary words are “quotas” and “percentages”. I think that has to be when you're talking about the contribution agreement. This is why I'm saying I'm not necessarily for quotas and I'm not for telling them how to do their job, but I think there have to be expectations that

Canadian Heritage committee  Would you like me to answer you in French, or in English? Maybe I can deal with this in English. What's essential is that this is long-term. This is why I feel this committee and the policies of our government are fundamental, because if we depend on champions, it will not last

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. When the various parties came together—and I was actually part of the process where Heritage Canada, Telefilm, and all these institutions made the decision that the francophones outside of Quebec were going to be part of their business plans and they established policies tha

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, but that's an enormous amount.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, because 10% of the francophone envelope represents approximately $8 million per year. That's the equivalent of about $25 million currently earmarked for regions outside Quebec. In 1995, no amount was budgeted for that purpose. Therefore, the government has been very helpful

Canadian Heritage committee  As far as production is concerned, during the 1970s and up until 1984 or 1985, many different types of programs were produced. The community was pumped up like never before. Daniel Lavoie was a product of this era. A certain kind of energy was in the air and professionals wanted

Canadian Heritage committee  They didn't accomplish this on their own. Policy changes occurred with the Canadian Television Fund after the federal government stepped in to ensure that the fund was attuned to the situation, that Telefilm...