Canadian Heritage committee  With respect, I think the fact that she is going to jail is of interest to a lot of our audience. I think our coverage of that was limited to that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Can I just add to that? As of this past Monday, there was a significant revamp of the CBC news online site. I think you would see, and I think the kids you referred to would see, a far greater emphasis on both video and audio. That is the beginning of what I think will be a very significant kind of transformation of cbc.ca over the next several weeks.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, first of all, I assume your reference to Paris Hilton was metaphorical. The CBC, and I know this is shared by Radio-Canada, is aggressively hostile to the coverage of those stories. I won't bore you with the many examples over the past several months, or even recent years, of where we have been totally offside in contrast to American commercial cable, and to a certain extent Canadian cable.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for this invitation. It is a privilege for Alain and for me to appear before your committee. For the past seven years, as editor-in-chief of CBC's English services division, my role has been to oversee the news and current affairs programming on CBC television, radio, Newsworld, and CBC news online.