Canadian Heritage committee  At the first level, it is Parliament that decides the CBC's mandate. And you decided, in the act, what your expectations of the CBC would be. The strategic plan in question here seems to me to be consistent with the overall plan. The CRTC has a public process to establish the det

Canadian Heritage committee  René will answer.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know exactly how the CBC, which is independent from us, is going to do it, but I can tell you, broadly, from a broadcasting perspective, technology is enabling wonderful opportunities where you have citizen journalists. We see it in Toronto and Vancouver, because people a

Canadian Heritage committee  Until the recent reform of what used to be the Canadian Television Fund, which is now the Canada Media Fund, the CBC had a set envelope of 37%. It was both a floor and a ceiling. They got just 37%. Under the new CMF, they get to compete with other players. They in fact get nearly

Canadian Heritage committee  In a sense, we're all seeing it in the headlines. I can assure you that we were thinking about it way before it got to the headlines. That's how we do our work. It was on the horizon. Last time I appeared, for instance, I talked about how we've renovated all our programs in one

Canadian Heritage committee  When I appeared last time on this issue, I think it came from another side. The Broadcasting Act right now has both a public and a private component. You are the parliamentarians. You know the act says that, and the CBC's creation is provided for in the act. It's the act, and Par

Canadian Heritage committee  I haven't heard anyone say that.

Canadian Heritage committee  On this issue.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's disruptive technology. That's what happens when a player like Netflix and others enters the marketplace. I've been told the current Internet traffic in Canada related to Netflix may be as high as 5% already, and they just launched in September. Some broadcasters are concerne

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the adjustment that occurs. The $60 million was simply an opportunity to do the set-off at that point.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, everyone's like that. You see, the old rule used to be that any time salary negotiations occurred under a collective agreement, Treasury Board would raise everybody's appropriation. That's the rule that changed. Now every department has to, through gains in productivity, wh

Canadian Heritage committee  They're subject to the same rules.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I think it's a simple answer, that the CRTC is part of the Heritage portfolio, and from a Treasury Board perspective it belongs to our minister. But it's not coming from our budget.

Canadian Heritage committee  Not quite. It just happens to be the last.... If you owed me an amount of money in a first transaction, and we were doing a second transaction and you owed me money, it would be easier for us to do the set-off on the second transaction. That's all this does. It's because the c

Canadian Heritage committee  You may be more familiar with its English name, the “do not call list”. It resulted from an amendment under the Telecommunications Act, and the CRTC needed additional resources in order to administer it. The CRTC is under Mr. Moore's portfolio, but the list was the result of a le