Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Chair and everyone, for having me here. By the way, I feel very good that we've just completed a deal with Emily's company. We have acquired at least as many theatricals as she wants. I'm here with clean hands as far as she's concerned.

Canadian Heritage committee  I want to talk about the opportunities portion of why you're here, because we have a bit of a different situation in what we've done. While I don't disagree with the notion of protection and things that we need to do within the Canadian marketplace, there are some things we've le

Canadian Heritage committee  Accurate reporting.

Canadian Heritage committee  First and foremost, all of the digital platforms that are emerging have to provide you with exact and precise information on what's actually happening on the platform. Most of what we've done in the past is.... I know we've created these barriers in scale in terms of things like

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the BDUs.

Canadian Heritage committee  The BDUs. They'll give it to Corus, apparently, but they don't give it to us. I would like to see what's being seen the most, but I get Nielsen's ratings, which is in one in 1,000 homes. That information is available, but the CRTC is moving at.... They have a two-year set-top bo

Canadian Heritage committee  We forget that we function on such a high level. You talked about my career. I met 16-year old Ryan Gosling on a show. I knew Nelly Furtado when she was 18. You work with a DOP, a director of production, like Greg Middleton who does independent shows in Vancouver. Last year he wa

Canadian Heritage committee  We forget how much talent we have in this country. We have done everything possible to destroy the innovative side in the last decade in order to try to protect what we had and keep us more insular. We need to open up and say, “You know what? We can play really well.” It's like

Canadian Heritage committee  The CMF has to be, I believe, realigned—by the way, I was in front of them this morning. They have to be realigned to fit with the government's goals, which are around export and creating these opportunities. Right now the way to increase your CMF envelope is to replay Canadian

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. It would also go to all kinds of different producers instead of two or three of the top ones in the country all the time.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can give you two answers. If you're at the international markets—in MIPCOM and such, as I was in October—there are a lot of Canadian producers. Most people would say that Canada punches above its weight, from a global perspective. On the other hand, there wasn't anyone there

Canadian Heritage committee  It's intermediation, really, which means acquiring premium American content and then reselling it in Canada, which is the primary business model of the major over-the-air broadcasters in Canada—CTV, Citytv and Global. The supply of content is gradually getting choked off. The A

Canadian Heritage committee  In May every year, they go to the screenings in L.A. and they buy the best shows. I go there as well, and every year there are fewer and fewer products available. They're already gone. Such-and-such has already gone to so-and-so. It means that the premium aspect of those business

Canadian Heritage committee  I absolutely think they do. It's interesting, because we work with some Quebec producers and we do some shows in Montreal. They do have the advantage of the second language. This is something that you see globally when you go into.... I was just in the Czech Republic, and they're

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, it's an ongoing problem. It's something that falls out of the realm of what we talk about, but it is really a huge issue. The notion that “free” is a business model has leaked into the idea that you should be able to stream stuff. We can't calculate what we lose e