Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the House of Commons, Mr. Vincent Leduc, Chairman of the board of directors of the APFTQ and myself, Claire Samson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the APFTQ, thank you for inviting us this morning to present our perspective on the current crisis

Canadian Heritage committee  The Broadcasting Act as well as other support measures for the industry were put in place particularly to promote the development and broadcasting of our culture in light of the omnipotence of our American neighbour. The goals of this legislation are more relevant than ever in an

Canadian Heritage committee  Priority must now be given to resolving the crisis and reassuring the industry and the population at large. Currently, there is a lot of equivocating over the degree of illegality of the Quebecor and Shaw decisions. Some experts maintain that by suspending their monthly payment

Canadian Heritage committee  We made these recommendations public on Tuesday. We have not yet had any reaction.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yesterday afternoon, I participated in the same teleconference as all the other industry stakeholders.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, she must have heard it.

Canadian Heritage committee  Of the cable companies, so far Cogeco and Bell have said publicly that they would be continuing to support the Canadian Television Fund. Rogers has not made any comment so far; at least we have not seen any. Nevertheless, it is clear that if Shaw and Videotron are left free to

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, it would not be wrong to talk about a historic war between the private sector and the public sector. I've been working in this industry for 30 years. This competition existed back then. Relations between private and public broadcasters were extremely difficult, and

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree with you. I don't think there is much to negotiate right now. If there is anything to negotiate and if it's going to be solved by negotiation, I'd like to know where to call to renegotiate my income tax payment, because I disagree with some regulations of the government.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon. I am Claire Samson, the president and CEO of the APFTQ, and I am accompanied by the chairman of the association’s board of directors, Mr. Vincent Leduc, who in daily life is vice-president of Zone 3, one of the largest independent television production companies i

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. We hope that these few simple but basic principles can help the Committee clarify the role of our national public broadcaster and convince the Canadian Parliament to provide it with adequate financial resources to carry out that role. We believe that the implementatio

Canadian Heritage committee  Vincent and I are former Radio-Canada employees. I don't know whether that's the case of Lise and Jean-Pierre. There are 12 of us around this table. If each of us went off on our own and prepared our own optimum programming schedule, the result would be 12 or 18 different proposa

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess somewhere there is a solution. A year and a half ago, the APFTQ started working with a committee on new rights and new platforms. We've done our homework. We've had some research done and so on as to what the models in the world were and how they were working. We tried to

Canadian Heritage committee  It's an option; of course it is an option. In the ideal world, the broadcasters, producers, and rights holders would be successful in establishing among themselves what they feel is fair treatment. If we start with the fact that everybody is reasonable and of good faith, fine. Bu

Canadian Heritage committee  None at all. Vincent can confirm this; I can produce a show that will generate a million viewers, and—