Please be brief.
Evidence of meeting #44 for Canadian Heritage in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was crtc.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #44 for Canadian Heritage in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was crtc.
A recording is available from Parliament.
4:25 p.m.
Spokesperson, Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS)
Mrs. Lavallée, if Télé-Québec, for example, modifies its digital transmitter, it would be possible to transmit the signals of different broadcasters. If Télé-Québec wanted to cooperate with CBC, it could offer its services in all these communities. It is our community option.
4:25 p.m.
President, Media Access Canada
Your point about the service being downloaded to you and your budget is very consistent with people with disabilities and organizations for the disabled, whose budgets are being cut back. They're volunteer, not-for-profit, and charitable organizations, and they just can't do it, so there are going to be tough times.
4:30 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Michael Chong
Thank you very much.
I have two quick points of information because I want to make sure we don't create misinformation out there. Any tube TV purchased in the last number of years will automatically handle the digital conversion. There's no need to purchase a conversion box, because they have the digital over-the-air converter built in. Any flat-screen TV has the digital converter built in. In fact, newer flat-screen TVs often don't receive analog signals anymore. You have to check whether or not the flat-screen TV you purchased will receive the existing analog signal, because a lot of them won't. That's the first point of information.
For members of the committee, the committee has received, pursuant to Standing Order 81(4), the main estimates for the Department of Canadian Heritage. They should be reported back to the House no later than May 31 of this year. If the committee wishes to study that issue, please let the chair know so that we can set some time aside between now and the end of May.
I want to thank our witnesses for their testimony. We have one more hearing on this issue on Monday with the department. At that point we'll wrap up these hearings.
With no further ado, the meeting is adjourned.