Canadian Heritage committee  I do not much like the idea of a quota. We believe that when it comes to national programs as opposed to regional programs, whether it be the 10 o'clock news or Christiane Charette's morning show, there should be a period set aside for what is going on in the francophonie outside

Canadian Heritage committee  At this point in time, we have the French Ontario television, TFO, that produces Franco-Ontarian dramas and Franco-Ontarian newscasts. We can however say that the bulk of francophone programs come from Quebec.

Canadian Heritage committee  That is where opinions differ. We are not asking anglophones to produce television programs for us. We are asking Radio-Canada's French-language television to support us and to play its role by helping us produce our own television shows. I agree that we need to protect the inst

Canadian Heritage committee  CBON covers all of Northern Ontario as of Mattawa, east to west. Approximately 150,000 francophones.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, part of the solution would be to bring back Radio-Canada's regional offices, but we also believe that there should be local programming, as well as regional offices. That is to say that air time should be set aside for local news where people from the community would have th

Canadian Heritage committee  National unity is not an issue of sovereignty, of separatism, of federalism or of autonomism. We believe that it is through talking to one another that the country will be able to understand itself. We will be able to speak to each other if we have air time within the national se

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. In Timmins, we get all the French TV channels. We also have a private French radio station. We are referring specifically to the francophone section of Radio-Canada. If they were to promote our francophone artists outside Quebec, our francophone reality outside Quebec, there

Canadian Heritage committee  I will answer in French because I am not really fluent in English.

Canadian Heritage committee  As far as radio is concerned, the cuts were less perceptible, we still hear talk about ourselves and what we do, but it is always at the regional level and not at the national level. As far as television is concerned, on the regional French Ontario newscast at 6 p.m.—I watched i

Canadian Heritage committee  In Timmins, the broadcaster offers us four services. We have Première chaîne , CBON, which is from Sudbury. We have the SRC television which is broadcast over the public airwaves as well as by cable. We also have the Réseau de l'information, which is a cable channel, and we have

Official Languages committee  I would just add that with the new Official Languages Act and Bill S-3, I think francophone organizations will have to start taking action against the government if it does not provide the funding we require and does not serve us in keeping with our rights. We are not a minority.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, I would like to add a few words. I have been the executive director of the Alliance de la francophonie de Timmins since 1995. Since 1998, I have worked on a part-time basis because the alliance could not afford to pay me full-time. During the day, I work for the sch