Canadian Heritage committee  I'll answer the last part. In our report, we actually go out of our way to indicate that it is not the time to lift the exemption just yet. Some of the words you've indicated, and certainly an open question in our report that I repeat in my opening statement is, should the new me

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm a bit uncomfortable in answering, because as I indicated earlier, that is a key consideration of our current over-the-air hearings with respect to broadcasters, which will set out a policy. Currently the CRTC's policy and the government's policy is trusting the market to rep

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. My name is Scott Hutton. I am associate executive director, broadcasting, at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. I am here today with Martine Vallee, our director of English pay and specialty television and social

Health committee  To answer your question, we do not have any data other than what we submitted last time. We are working with people in the department of health. I think we worked with them during the interdepartmental consultations following the report and the recommendation for a thorough revie

Health committee  The codes do apply beyond children's programming. We're being specific with regard to children's programming, but it also applies to advertising potentially directed at children. So all of those advertisements are pre-cleared and are judged against the code and the guidelines tha

Health committee  I'll start with that last point. The CRTC is not the body, nor do we have the expertise or the mandate, to determine that this food is not good. We rely on the regulations that are put in place by Health Canada under the Food and Drugs Act. So we defer to them and work with them

Health committee  You and I can agree personally that a certain food may cause obesity. It is the responsibility of Health Canada, and the people within that portfolio, to make those calls. As a regulator, I cannot make that call for them. I don't have that authority or responsibility. I rely on t

Health committee  The CRTC regulates broadcasting. Broadcasting on radio stations and on television stations we're familiar with. There are also forms of pay and specialty television--the TSNs of the world, and Discovery, etc. We regulate all of the Canadian services. We also regulate the companie

Health committee  Improvements have been made since the code was first developed because of concerns about programming for children, who are the most vulnerable audience. That is the main reason we decided to say that children under 12 are more vulnerable to advertising than teenagers are.

Health committee  The code applies to children under the age of 12. We also develop regulations for stations that specialize in programming for children and teenagers. Advertising regulations apply to all of their programming. We do more than just draft the code. In this case, our system is backe

Health committee  The CRTC receives very few complaints because ads are pre-approved. I could count the number of complaints we have received on one hand, but I will give Linda the opportunity to explain what she does.

Health committee  I can go first if you want. If it's a question of banning a certain food from being advertised, the clear answer there is that it's Health Canada's responsibility. They set the regulations in that regard. What we do at the CRTC is try to put an environment around the advertis

Health committee  How the system works is that it is not our jurisdiction to ban, but certainly it is our responsibility to enforce a product that is banned. So if Health Canada—whether it's with respect to a new food or with respect to, for example, smoking—has put restrictions on advertising i

Canadian Heritage committee  I think they were initially established in 1993, and there was a review in 1997. There has not been a formal review of them since that time.

Canadian Heritage committee  There were some adjustments.