Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your questions.

Canadian Heritage committee  So if I had had an email from him, Mr. Chair, he would have said, “Thank you very much, and by the way, can you do something about the jazz?”

Canadian Heritage committee  It's another very important platform right now that's being used. Again I look forward to getting the details on all the services we provide. Radio Canada International is surely one of them.

Canadian Heritage committee  New media is for everybody involved. For example, Transcontinental, whose board is one I sit on, has a media company; or the web—how to connect and how to bring people to use its services. As you know, there are nearly three million people who go to cbc.ca and 1.7 million people who go to radio-canada.ca.

Canadian Heritage committee  I understand it well; I think it's a big challenge. When we talked about challenges today, I told you about funding and I told you about the business environment. Another important challenge is to ensure that in prime time, high-quality Canadian TV content gets massively distributed to Canadians.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Robert Rabinovich has been incredibly generous with his time in this transition period. I have only great things to say about that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't do much about that criticism. I'm an outsider. I come in from the private sector. You've seen what I've done before in my life. I've never worked in a public crown corporation, but I think this is adding to the skills of the team that has been there and has worked within CBC for a little while now.

Canadian Heritage committee  I just wrote it down. Thank you for the comment.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, that's not at all the case.

Canadian Heritage committee  What I'm telling you is that CBC/Radio-Canada has a clear mandate under the act and that it will continue to carry it out.

Canadian Heritage committee  Personally, I understand that CBC/Radio-Canada also does a lot of things in other languages, on different platforms, and that it will continue to do so while I am President and CEO.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Bélanger.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's definitely not the primary objective I'm setting for myself in taking up the position.

Canadian Heritage committee  What is the question, madam?

Canadian Heritage committee  Your first question concerns what we do with the money, how we use it or something like that. I don't yet have any details on budgets; I'll meet with the management team in early January. I understand one thing, though. I understand that Radio-Canada broadcasts in French and that CBC broadcasts in English, but that this is a business, and the network obviously recognizes that the issues are similar.