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Canadian Heritage committee Good morning, Madam Chair, and members of the committee. I would like to thank you for inviting us to appear today as part of your study on the media and local communities. My name is Walter Duszara. I am the secretary of the board of directors of the Quebec Community Groups Ne
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee A remarkably broad variety of community journalism models are emerging, harking back to a recurring theme that these are vulnerable to faltering, and even failure. In the United States, the so-called hyper-local news projects, established and operated by The Washington Post,The N
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee Very well. We believe the recommendations that we outlined in our report will help lay the groundwork to encourage a fuller spectrum of healthy community media for the digital era, especially as it impacts official-language minority communities.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee There are numerous problems. In the first place, with the cutbacks to the staff in Quebec City, the staff cuts represent basically no reporting in English on legislation in Quebec at the municipal and provincial levels. Also, the reporters who did local reporting no longer work
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee We speak on behalf of the needs of the English-speaking minority of Quebec, yes.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee Some 80% plus are in Montreal, but there are 210,000 living in the rural areas, spread out across the entire province.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee The organization is an umbrella organization that, at this point, brings together 48 different groups. By and large, the groups provide services directly to the population. Many of them are local. Many of them are also regional in scope. The kinds of activities they cover range f
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee I'm not sure what the exact number is, but we get less than a million dollars from Canadian Heritage in core funding, and then there is project funding that the organization is involved in with the member organizations.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee We have a director of policy. We engage friends from the community who are academics, who are experts in their field, who do work for us, and support us in the work we do. We ensure that we have people engaged in looking at all of the reports that are developed by Statistics Cana
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee I am going to try to answer your question in English, if I may.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee The Internet of course has been a boon to be able to reach different communities and different groups from around the province and in the various centres of the province. However, it does not necessarily trickle down to the individual. In the regions in particular, access to broa
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee Go ahead.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara
Canadian Heritage committee I think what we're asking for here is consideration of creating an environment that invites experimentation, creating an environment that invites younger people and provides younger people with an opportunity to develop their craft and to develop perhaps new products that can be
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Walter Duszara