Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning, Madam Chairperson, and members of the committee. Any question of providing commercial financial subsidies instantly raises an intractable set of fresh problems and must be rejected out of hand. Traditional boundaries governing government interaction with media owne

Canadian Heritage committee  Just do the conclusion.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, which one should be first, the local?

Canadian Heritage committee  Here is an example of local. This is a French-language paper delivered to everybody weekly in my area. The local English paper has met its demise, and as a result it gets two pages in the middle. Those are three articles translated from French into English and, you will notice, r

Canadian Heritage committee  Exactly so.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. For example, I mentioned the community radio fund, which has traditionally supported the establishment of community radio stations. There is a financial resource that could be devoted to helping establish some of these other alternatives—not excluding, of course, community r

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll take the first one. Will you take the second one?

Canadian Heritage committee  The state is that outside of Montreal you have the CBC, with a radio broadcast out of Quebec City, and then you have five or six local community radio stations and at this point fewer than 10 English-language community newspapers, all of which are either of limited range or in qu