Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, of course, but they do apply to broadcasting. You have to remember that. What you're talking about--that little phone you have in your hand--is not broadcasting. We actually went to court with a reference and said, “Please tell us to what extent we can apply those rules to t

Canadian Heritage committee  No, we did not. They do not amount to broadcasting, as I've just said. What is Netflix? In effect, Netflix is a way of renting videos over the wire rather than from a store. That's all it is. It's a Blockbuster in the sky, if you want. Apple TV is a means of buying a product fr

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. You know, if you want to do something about it, undoubtedly you can, but it has to be done through legislation. It can't be done through the CRTC.

Canadian Heritage committee  I didn't say--

Canadian Heritage committee  Let's start with.... You made a huge number of assumptions here, most of them which I would disagree--

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, fine. Call them questions, call them assumptions.... You said, for instance, that you have to protect the public interest. That's absolutely right, but the public interest is not only diversity of voices. We also want to make sure we have a thriving industry that employs pe

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, absolutely, it's in my mandate. Read the objectives of the Broadcasting Act. It--

Canadian Heritage committee  No. It presupposes that you make sure you have a healthy broadcasting communications industry. You don't have that if you're over-regimented and throw regulatory roadblocks in the way.

Canadian Heritage committee  So our job is--

Canadian Heritage committee  You have to let me finish. You asked the question. Let me finish the answer.

Canadian Heritage committee  You are trying to bring a balance between having healthy innovation in the industry and at the same time protecting the public and trying to make sure the industry players do not abuse their economic position. But both of those are okay--not just one but both. Here, you've ment

Canadian Heritage committee  We'll see; that may be the case or it may not. As I said earlier, we are exercising caution. We will be holding our hearings in June. Everyone will have an opportunity to make a presentation so that we can really flesh out the issues. This is the type of concentration we are see

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I guess so.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for participating in our hearing on broadcasters and satellites. Your contribution was very much appreciated.

Canadian Heritage committee  You proceed from the assumption that there's a problem and we have to worry about it. As you yourself said, we've seen a tectonic shift, to use your words, and you have a huge number of sources of information right now, something we hadn't... Yes, we have a great concentration of