Canadian Heritage committee  The first comment I would make is that the CRTC has recognized this as a challenge, and people would drop the news, hence the reason that English news services had 9(1)(h) status in the last CRTC hearings. There is a recognition that news, not only in ethnic languages, is struggl

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. To be totally honest, that comes as an overwhelming surprise to me, because for three years I have been talking about the challenges that OMNI faces. We have spoken to every ethnic group. We have spoken to the ethnic council. We've spoken to the Senate comm

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, I beg to disagree and will say that if we actually went through the transcript of the CRTC and spent three hours on it, I don't think we would have the exact same opinion. I believe that we have been totally up front, and at the exact same time we have also continued to se

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Colette. OMNI is operating, as you probably know, in an extremely competitive environment that is being transformed daily by the introduction of new and unregulated digital platforms, changes to video consumption patterns, and shifts in advertising revenue to digital pla

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairperson. We also have with us Paritosh Mehta from OMNI, who is at the back of the room. He is our head of independent production. As well, Heidi Bonnell, our vice-president of federal government relations, is in the audience. Thank you for the opportunity to