Evidence of meeting #20 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was broadcast.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Konrad W. von Finckenstein  Chairman, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Michel Arpin  Vice-Chairman, Broadcasting, Chairman's Office, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Rick Brace  President, Revenue, Business Planning and Sports, CTV Inc.
Gerry Frappier  French Chef de Mission, President and General Manager, Réseau des Sports (RDS) and Réseau Info-Sports (RIS), Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium
David Goldstein  Senior Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs, CTVglobemedia Inc.

10:50 a.m.

President, Revenue, Business Planning and Sports, CTV Inc.

Rick Brace

In fact, if you have cable or satellite, which many of them do have, we don't need to do it. It's there already. CTV is carried on satellite and cable, so it's there.

The issue is how many anglophone people there are who only receive their signals over the air. It's exactly the same issue that we have on the francophone side of the equation.

To the extent that you have cable or satellite, it's not an issue.

10:50 a.m.

Conservative

Daniel Petit Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC

Thank you.

10:50 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney

Thank you, Monsieur Petit.

We are now at the end of our session.

I want to thank our witnesses for sharing their openness and some proposals that will certainly gain some ground.

Thank you very much.

Mr. Nadeau, do you want to speak?

10:50 a.m.

Bloc

Richard Nadeau Bloc Gatineau, QC

Yes, Mr. Chairman. You don't have to answer me immediately, but this could pave the way for next Thursday. I see that a briefing session is scheduled for June 2 and I see the name of C. Drouin, as well as that of the Association franco-ontarienne des conseils scolaires catholiques. What's that about?

10:55 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney

We have some current business. I'll come back to that and I'll give you an answer later. Next Thursday, we will devote a half hour to current business. We can review our program at that time.

Thank you very much.

The meeting is adjourned.