Canadian Heritage committee  Without adequate production financing, Canadians will not have the choice of sufficient professionally produced Canadian digital entertainment media. Yes, the costs of content creation have dropped so low that anyone can be a content creator. But it is the production costs that are dropping--cameras and editing equipment and software.

Canadian Heritage committee  We now know that what they really want is to direct their contributions into their own funds. Pierre Karl Péladeau not only wants to send his contributions to his own fund, but only his production company can access the money to produce programs to be aired only on his broadcasters.