Official Languages committee  Are you referring specifically to funding programs?

Official Languages committee  There's really not much. Our stations have been working very hard for years to identify government programs that they can access for support. All of our stations are not-for-profit groups, and most of them are able to access Canada Summer Jobs support, to bring in somebody in the summer to do an extra project.

Official Languages committee  In the past year, the NCRA, ARC du Canada, and ARC du Québec participated jointly in the CRTC campus and community radio policy review. Our comments to the hearing addressed several areas of the policy in which our stations need more flexible and realistic regulation, but the dominant topic of the hearing was the need for sustainable funding of the sector.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, members. I'm Kevin Matthews, executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association, and this is Shelley Robinson, the membership coordinator. The NCRA is a not-for-profit group of organizations and individuals committed to volunteer-based community-oriented radio broadcasting in Canada.