Canadian Heritage Committee on Oct. 4th, 2006

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

Is there any other business?

Mr. Kotto.

[Maka Kotto, Bloc, Saint-Lambert, QC]

Mr. Chairman, I come back to the issue of Telefilm Canada. Correct me if I am wrong, but Telefilm Canada still does not have a board of directors that is working in accordance with the rules, given that some of the directors were prevented from taking part by Bill C-18. Decisions that have been made by Telefilm Canada since March 2005, if my memory serves me right, have not been made by the whole board of directors. This situation is dragging on. In a spirit of emergency, I would like to have them appear before our committee to examine how they are working, how they are doing and how their decisions are made, all the more so that they have made a quite important decision in giving someone or some group the mandate to advise them in the matter of the production of a feature film, ideally. I would like to know the ins and outs of all these dealings by a board of directors that is not supposed to be operational.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

It has been noted: Telefilm Canada. I think what we'll try to do is work that into the agenda.

Mr. Angus.

[Charlie Angus, NDP, Timmins—James Bay, ON]

Not to belabour this, I think we've made our suggestions and you can come up with how this piece of pie is going to look.

To reiterate, I think it's important that we do the film review first, so we're set up. But I would prefer that Telefilm and the Canadian Television Fund each have their own days, because as Mr. Kotto pointed out, there are major issues with them. I wouldn't want to bunch them together.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

Okay, we'll take that under advisement.

Is there any other business?

As there is no other business, the meeting is adjourned.