Thank you for inviting us to appear before the committee. Unfortunately, there was not enough time between your indication an appearance for us to get a brief translated. That being said, the tables included in our document would be easy to understand.
We also understand that the committee hoped that we would keep our remarks short. As such, we will simply discuss the issue of the changes affecting our business model and the need for scale.
Corus Entertainment is one of Canada's larger media companies. We operate over a dozen specialty and pay television services. We own Nelvana, which is one of the world's premiere producers of children's animation programming. Corus has invested over $1 billion in the production of Canadian content programming.
Over the past several years, we have been exploring new and innovative ways to capitalize on new technology-driven markets. Our goal is to use a variety of digital platforms to deliver our content directly to viewers, not only in Canada but around the world. Corus provides Canadian content to multiplatform channels, such as KidsCo in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and qubo in the United States. Corus is also Canada's largest publisher of children's books.
In this context, we appear before the committee today as a company that plays a variety of roles in the Canadian economy. Corus is a distinctive Canadian company. We are a broadcaster here and around the world, but we are also a major producer of content in a variety of forms. But in a world context, we are small. We are very small.