Canadian Heritage committee  No, but as the minister said, we've had four major distributors remove the service at this point. The remaining big distributor, which is Videotron in the Quebec market, does not carry RT. There are a number of smaller distributors, and the situation is a little less clear with t

Canadian Heritage committee  I have a couple of statistics I can share with you. If those don't do the trick, we can certainly follow up. Since the beginning of the 2017-18 fiscal year, the Department of Canadian Heritage has spent approximately $8.75 million on advertising. Of that amount, only $846,000 wa

Canadian Heritage committee  The 2017-18 amount is a cumulative figure, so $8.75 million is the cumulative figure since 2017-18.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Champoux. I gave you the figures that I had available today on Canadian Heritage. The advertising budget policy isn't the responsibility of the department or the Minister of Canadian Heritage. It's managed across government. It falls under the res

Canadian Heritage committee  The question of increased transparency in terms of how these platforms work and the impact on Canadians, and specifically on certain communities, was an important component of the proposal the government put forward in the summer. When it published its proposal with respect to on

Canadian Heritage committee  We are. In the space of online harms, if I were to characterize it broadly, I would say there are about three big international models. You have the German takedown-type model. The proposal that the government put out last summer drew heavily on the experience of Germany. I would

Canadian Heritage committee  I will be super brief, Chair. The third model is what I would characterize as the duty of care model that the U.K. has been putting forward. There's an emphasis on making sure that platforms have appropriate processes and mechanisms in place to deal with a variety of different o

Canadian Heritage committee  Broadly speaking, “program” covers audio and audiovisual content that is distributed by a broadcaster. It excludes primarily text-based content.

Canadian Heritage committee  A broadcaster includes a variety of different types of undertaking. We're going to take a little dive here into technicality, but it would include your traditional over-the-air broadcasters, as well as things we would commonly call TV channels. Those would be your specialty TV ch

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean the definition of an online broadcaster? I could pull it up for you, but in short, it's in the.... Give me one second, Ms. Thomas. It's as follows: online undertaking means an undertaking for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the Internet for rece

Canadian Heritage committee  I have been following the debate with respect to that specific term. What I would offer to you, Ms. Thomas, is that the definition has to be looked at in the broader legislative scheme and understood in the context of the Broadcasting Act, which is seeking to achieve certain spec

Canadian Heritage committee  The concept of “program” is well understood. The Broadcasting Act is something that has been in effect for a while now. It is important to remember that the Broadcasting Act is not about regulating individual pieces of content, no matter on which service they're found. The inte

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Hello everyone. Thank you for inviting us here to join your discussion today. I am also joining you from the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. Canada's Status of the Artist Act arose out of the recognition of the fact that the path ta

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chair, may I answer?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Waugh. You are right. There was a review of the act seven years after it came into force. At the time, the report found that, generally speaking, things were working well. There were no major recommendations to change the act at the time. It's ce