Canadian Heritage committee  Okay.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll try to explain it again. In the last opportunity the question was very long, so it probably cut out the point of my being able to explain it. Six out of 10 in the CRTC world has been the standard for what is Canadian since 1984. That has not changed. The Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office, which has certified content for the tax credit since 1995, has used six out of 10 as the norm to define what is a Canadian production.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are productions that are made—

Canadian Heritage committee  That may not be your point of view, but—

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I find it curious that everyone is promoting a foreign service when we have Canadian services in Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  We hosted a discoverability conference. The view expressed there was that we had to emphasize promotion, marketing and the need to distribute products made by Canadians, very good products, not only in Canada but all around the world. If—

Canadian Heritage committee  After a public, transparent and evidence-based process, the commission has come to the conclusion that there is still a lot of money in the system. Tax credits are available and broadcasters continue to produce for their traditional platforms. However, we must insist on the need to make the transition.

Canadian Heritage committee  You feel that people who use Netflix are not watching other products. However, you just have to think of Unité 9 and La galère. Other channels are available on Netflix.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have Canadian services, like Illico and Tou.tv. Tou.tv was the first streaming service in Canada, but that has never been promoted.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is a business decision, but we still have other services. In the francophone market, Vidéotron might be of interest to you. Illico is in that market and provides a service. So we can say that there is a supply of Canadian French in the Quebec market.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's not my decision.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are two things are. We publish probably what is the highest standard of reference in terms of facts and data on communications systems annually. We invite anybody to use that. It's quite an extensive report. It's called the Communication Monitoring Report. It's going to be issued soon, in a couple weeks.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Nantel. I follow what goes on in Parliament. So I saw that you took the opportunity to ask that question to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. She is the right person to answer questions about appointments, because, under the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, appointments to the commission are clearly made by the government on the recommendation of the minister.

Canadian Heritage committee  There seem to be two questions there, one of which is about the Broadcasting Act. The CRTC’s mandate is to implement the legislation that you as parliamentarians have voted for. It is up to you to decide whether the act has to be updated. Our role at the commission is to implement and put in place what you as parliamentarians have entrusted to the commission as an administrative tribunal.