Evidence of meeting #41 for Canadian Heritage in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was french.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Andrew Wilhelm-Boyles  Executive Director, Alliance for Arts and Culture
Anne Ironside  Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Ian Morrison  Spokesperson, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Bob D'Eith  Executive Director, Music BC
Lynda Brown  President, New Media BC
Phillip Djwa  President, Agentic, New Media BC
Adam Gooch  Program and Communications Manager, New Media BC
Yseult Friolet  Executive Director, Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique
Réjean Beaulieu  Principal, Le Canard Réincarné
Alexandre Houle  Executive Director, Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver
Christine Sotteau  Government Relations Coordinator, Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique

12:45 p.m.

NDP

Denise Savoie NDP Victoria, BC

So you're talking about making a better use of the web in order to democratize broadcasting.

12:45 p.m.

Principal, Le Canard Réincarné

Réjean Beaulieu

If francophones set up blogs or "wikis", then CBC needs to talk about it. We're given websites from Quebec. There's a CBC editorial which talks about good websites, good addresses, but they aren't local addresses. They're addresses set up by active people in Quebec. And that's a pity, because francophones from here won't be interested.

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger

Thank you very much. I've really appreciated your presentations here this morning and your answers to the questions.

When we were in Yellowknife the other evening we listened to a lot of people and gave them their time. I'm sorry we couldn't do that today. We could probably spend hours with every witness we've had here today, so thank you for coming.

In the north, in Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories, we have some 11 Innu languages along with French and English. I know it has to be a big problem to serve all the people of Canada. We have a bilingual country, and Vancouver is a hub of more languages.

We've heard about new media for a long time, and I appreciate the various presentations today on new media. Thank you very much.

Our next presentations will start at two o'clock.

The meeting is adjourned.