Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. My name is Douglas Barrett. I am the chair of the board of directors of the Canadian Television Fund. With me is Valerie Creighton, the fund's president. To her right is Mr. Stéphane Cardin, Vice-President, Strategic Policy Planning at the Canadian Television Fund and Kathy Corcoran, our director of research.

Canadian Heritage committee  All right. You may notice, just from the weight of our brief, that it will run long. We've been furiously editing it down to meet your shortened time requirements. If certain passages aren't read out as we go by, we'd like you to read them later. Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to appear before you this morning.