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Canadian Heritage committee Over the last 10 years, we believe that Franco-Canadian producers, directors and actors have been working in a area that has undergone a rather interesting professional development. And yet, these people are unknown. For a variety of reasons—reasons which would constitute a diffe
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee Currently, there is an agreement to develop Franco-Canadian arts and culture. This agreement was entered into by seven cultural and artistic agencies, the federal government, and the French-Canadian Cultural Federation. Originally, the agreement sought to garner the commitment of
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee I will try to answer your question in two ways. Firstly, one basic principle is that a public television broadcaster such as SRC/CBC, should receive greater government financial support if we want it to fulfil its role as public television. If this were done, the broadcaster wou
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee Yes, with the tools that we currently have, such as the Canadian Television Fund. I think that it is a good thing that commercial television can dip into those funds to produce Canadian content.
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee That is a possible solution. If this were to happen, we would be looking for people to buy into public television, to give people a sense of responsibility for public television. Conversely, public television will feel beholden to Canadians, more so than it would having to focus
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee Very well. Thank you.
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee Yes. This is a process which I think we began over one year ago. We met with CRTC representatives in order to see what type of consultative mechanism the CRTC could use to meet its obligations under sections 41 and 42 of the Official Languages Act. One recommendation was for a po
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee Like the APFTQ, we believe that there must be increased funding for the Canadian Television Fund. The work that has been accomplished in collaboration with the APFC has been a success, but more must be done. As you know, from the Canadian Television Fund $200 million go to anglop
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee I would tell you that it would certainly be to the advantage of Radio-Canada to do so. I lived in Alberta for 4 years and in the Yukon for 12, and these are two places where I saw very good cooperation between the CBC and Radio-Canada. In the North, among others, when I was Direc
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee It is because of the regional services. What differentiates Radio-Canada from other networks are these regional services. When you look at what is going on in the provinces, the regions, the Atlantic and in Ontario, it is very difficult to point to strong trends, but francophone
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee We can say that the bases are covered, but we must now do more, at the regional level. The weakest link is at the national level. As I've stated, people now see Radio-Canada as being almost Radio-Montreal. Radio-Canada needs to pull away from its Montreal central clique, it need
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee This is why in our brief we mentioned the idea of a royalty, which exists in France, for instance. In other words, it is a type of tax worth 500 or 1,200 francs or euros per household, to fund public television. There are other countries using this type of system. That is why we
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee The word "protectionism" has a certain negative connotation in this regard. In my opinion, Canadian society must above all refer to a principle which is more and more present, that of cultural diversity, following the signature of the convention. I think that from an internation
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee Are you talking about promoting greater cooperation between the CBC and Radio-Canada? Is that the crossover?
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau
Canadian Heritage committee I've been the executive director of the Fédération culturelle canadienne-française for three years now and it is possible that the federation appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in the past. I know that we appeared regularly before the Standing Committee o
April 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Pierre Bourbeau