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Canadian Heritage committee Exactly. So is it a distraction? No. We always take the approach of being innovative.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee No, again, I'm sorry, we have no relationship with the David Suzuki Foundation on The Test Tube.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee No, it's not a partnership with the Suzuki Foundation; it's a project with David Suzuki, which we developed. It's not at all related to the foundation.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee I'm not sure I understand your question.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee Well, we are always open to partnerships, absolutely. We favour them. It's something we would absolutely welcome, and we try to find the best approach. Again, given our limited means, we always want to leverage. So, absolutely, we would be very happy to entertain that.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee Generally, the strategic plan comes with a new commissioner. Our commissioner was appointed in June 2005, and in the following months he developed this plan.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee I'm sorry, 2015?
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee No, no.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee There will be a new strategic plan coming shortly. I would imagine that it will be in the next one because it will be covering that exact period. In terms of autonomy, I can testify to the committee that we have total autonomy. We have absolutely no interference at all from the department.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee There are two. We have our parliamentary appropriation, which is the major part of our funding—
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee This year it's $66.783 million. The balance comes from self-generated revenues.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee We're not allowed to do any advertising on our NFB website, given our status as an agency, so that's where we have some limitations. But we can partner with other portals that charge, and then we get a share of the revenue. So we have some limitations, given the kind of organization we are.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee The genesis of what we did with Mr. Suzuki was an interactive project called The Test Tube. It's an interactive work that we developed with the concept of.... The film that was produced was a private sector production funded by Telefilm, the Media Fund, and Entertainment One, eOne, the biggest distribution company in the country.
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur
Canadian Heritage committee No, Test Tube is just an interactive project that—
December 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Claude Joli-Coeur