Finance committee  Thank you. Let me just say that even though there are 13 non-profit societies created by this access program, not all get the same amount of money; some in fact operate on as little as $300,000 per annum. If there are no arrangements to ensure continuity of funding in a timel

Finance committee  Northern Native Broadcasting, the non-profit society, does not.

Finance committee  I would like to address the question, obviously not from the perspective of the Government of the Yukon or as an elected official, but as a taxpayer and as a member of a self-governing first nation. At the end of the year when we pay our taxes, we pay our taxes in a formula, a po

Finance committee  I think what you have to understand is the background from which aboriginal broadcasting has grown. It's a creation of the Government of Canada, in recognizing its shortfall with the public broadcaster. The public broadcaster has a mandate to reflect the society around it. Clearl

Finance committee  Thank you very much, and we appreciate your indulgence. With regard to that question, we have never been funded to do the necessary surveys required to support our program. However, informal surveys show that our listenership is very wide. We get requests for information and musi

Finance committee  We broadcast in as many aboriginal languages as are available to us. However, in the Yukon there are eight aboriginal dialects, with two aboriginal languages overall, and we use as many of those languages as possible. But there are a couple of languages that don't get as widespre

Finance committee  Thank you so much.