Mr. Richard Hardacre at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On December 11th, 2007. See this statement in context.

December 11th, 2007 / 10:20 a.m.

National President, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)

Thank you.

I believe CanWest Global will be listening very carefully to the CRTC's rules. It's a very important multi-billion-dollar decision that's happening right now.

We are continuing to advocate that there needs to be a minimum of content in prime time. Global and CTV, the big private broadcasters, are saying that they're putting money into priority programming—that means Canadian programming, which could be news, sports, or variety—and it's not necessarily in prime time. We need to see Canadian work in prime time, and we will be arguing about that until the cows come home.

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