Evidence of meeting #23 for Canadian Heritage in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was violent.
A recording is available from Parliament.
As an Individual
My TV is capable of doing it, but we don't have it on. You can turn it off and on, and we don't have it on. We just decide whether we want to watch something, depending on whether it's too violent or not.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Thank you for those great questions and answers.
Mr. Chong, please.
Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My name is Michael. Just to give you a bit of background, I live on a farm just outside of Toronto. Believe it or not, we can't get cable or high-speed Internet access, so if any of you don't have high-speed Internet access you shouldn't be embarrassed either, because we can't get it. And we've chosen not to get satellite TV, so we have what my wife calls “cow cable”, which is a big stickly antennae sticking up the side of the house.
I wanted to ask you all whether or not you have high-speed Internet access at home.
Maybe we could just start with Victoria and continue.
Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
I think increasingly most people in Canada have access to high-speed Internet.
My other question is, do any of you have a computer in your bedroom? If anybody does, maybe just raise your hand and answer the question that way.
I see that three of you have computers in your bedroom, which I'm assuming are yours to use, and all of you have high-speed Internet access.
Do all of you have cable or satellite? Because you have high-speed Internet access, I'm assuming that you probably also have cable and satellite in your home.
Does anybody here not have cable or satellite in your home?
As an Individual
I don't have it at my mom's, but I do have it at my dad's.
Conservative
As an Individual
I have cable, like channel 48 and all of those channels, but I don't have satellite.
Conservative
Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
Oh, so you have regular dial-up Internet. So you're more advanced than we are, because we don't even have that.
The other question I have for all of you is what do you spend more hours per week in front of, the computer or the television set?
As an Individual
It's definitely the computer. I talk a lot on MSN and go on Facebook, and stuff like that, and I probably only watch a couple of hours of television, mostly movies.
Conservative
As an Individual
I prefer the computer, because I can talk to my friends and watch TV at the same time.
As an Individual
It's TV, because we have a rule for our computer that it's just for an hour. So it's TV.
As an Individual
For me, I don't bother going on the computer; I prefer watching television.