Canadian Heritage committee  Go ahead.

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

Canadian Heritage committee  I am going to try to answer your question in English, if I may.

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

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

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.

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

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

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

Canadian Heritage committee  We speak on behalf of the needs of the English-speaking minority of Quebec, yes.

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.

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

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.

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