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Official Languages committee It is the same everywhere.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee Our stations are in a predicament; there is not enough staff.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee We are asking for recurrent funding. That is what we need.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee Yes, that is it.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee We hope to start the year without having to go out and get this money from the community.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee Yes, exactly.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee All right.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee Currently, when the CRTC grants you a licence, you are only allowed to broadcast 80% pop music, 12% country music and the remaining 8% belongs to the third category which includes blues, jazz or—
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee —classical music or religious music. Thus, you have to broadcast music that belongs to this 8% category. There is no choice. We asked the CRTC to let us choose the music—other than pop music—that corresponds to the 20% portion. We want to decide what our community wants to hear.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee This is the case because it is difficult to tell whether a campus radio station only has 2,000 listeners. Let us take Iqaluit for example, with its 600 francophone residents. The radio station has 400 listeners. Are we going to draw a distinction? No, because to us, this radio station is just as important, if not more so, because it has even less personnel and fewer resources.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee No, everyone needs help. We do not have enough to fulfil our mandate.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee The situation is different in New Brunswick, because the retention rate is nevertheless quite high compared to the rest of Canada. Elsewhere in Canada, I think that retention remains a problem, because young people want to complete their classes and move on.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee Until we get the results of the review of the Community and Campus Radio Policy, we will have some difficulties. As regards the review, we asked that a portion of the money for developing Canadian content, that the private sector pays to the CRTC, be put into the Community Radio Fund of Canada.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté
Official Languages committee The funds are for capital assets. However, there is nothing to fund existing radio stations.
March 16th, 2010Committee meeting
François Côté