Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chairman, good morning. Good morning, members of the committee. I would like to thank you for inviting us here to talk about our 2015 strategic plan entitled “Everyone, Every Way”. We welcome the committee's continued interest in what we are doing and I look forward to upd

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your comments on Sir John A. I think that was also a very good story. Having stable funding and the ability to continue, like the other broadcasters, with the same rules being applied to all broadcasters under the Canada media fund and the local programming improve

Canadian Heritage committee  We understand the importance of those years coming. I'm going to ask Christine to tell you a bit about how we envisage our contribution to this. It's an important one.

Canadian Heritage committee  Our mandate that comes out of the Broadcasting Act is to inform, enlighten, and entertain Canadians, and the enlighten part is exactly what we talked about. You heard Christine tell you about how these great moments over the next five years will be portrayed. We understand the im

Canadian Heritage committee  We do like to take certain risks. They allow our relationship with our listening audience to progress. Mr. Lalande will talk about what happens when we create a programming grid.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are several parts to your question. I am going to address the matter of the connection. The main objective of the 2015 strategic plan is to rebuild the emotional connection between English or French-speaking Canadians and the national public broadcaster. As I have said be

Canadian Heritage committee  One of Louis' responsibilities at Radio-Canada is to be director of regional French services. I am going to ask him to answer that question.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said to Mr. Brown a second ago, I don't know what the number is going to be at the end. I don't know what kind of adjustment we're going to have to make. But I would like to reiterate the fact that we are going to preserve the three directions, the three thrusts, the three s

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, Christine wanted to add something.

Canadian Heritage committee  You know, Mr. Simms, that we're talking about 90-minute local news now across the country. That's the window of local news. So that trend has been reversed. When I said on the video that sometimes we were not always there in the regions, yes, we recognize this, and that's why w

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I think what we're doing is committing all the resources and efforts towards these priorities, and that's what rises to the top when we have to make decisions.

Canadian Heritage committee  Evan's show.

Canadian Heritage committee  Let's take the Power & Politics show of Evan Solomon, two hours every day during the year, whether Parliament is sitting or not. It's about stories. It's about podcasting. It's about radio podcasting. It's about making sure that we see what's going on throughout the country a

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me give you a bit of perspective on the $60-million envelope, and then I'll ask Christine and Louis to give you details of what we're doing in the markets. The $60-million programming envelope has been given to us since 2000, so it's been something that we used for Canadian