Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  I'd like to deal with the first point about competitors. They clearly are competitors in trying to attract eyeballs. And also, since the CBC lives off advertising for a large part of its money, they compete for advertisers. When we had the value for signal hearings, it was a ques

Information & Ethics committee  It was the decision of the third party, who owns that information.

Information & Ethics committee  Right. If you as a requester disagree with my decision not to divulge, it's your right to go to the Federal Court and say we should divulge. At that point, I would say to the court, “Here is the information. It's under seal. I have no interest in this fight, but the private comp

Information & Ethics committee  Let's take it one by one. First of all, we're not talking about taxpayers; we're talking about subscribers. The money from the LPIF comes from cable and satellite subscribers. It's a percentage of the gross revenue made by cable companies and television companies.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, if you want to.... Obviously, there are taxpayers--

Information & Ethics committee  I've just explained to you that we administer this fund. We make sure it is used for the purposes set out for it. I went through the criteria we used and I explained to you the reports they have to file each year, what they have to contain, etc. Now the company takes a position

Information & Ethics committee  I do not take any position on whether this is justified or not; I just take the information. Knowing that they furnished it to me in confidence, I respect that confidence. Effectively, the challenge is with the private broadcasters. I have no issue here; I just put it in court an

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  Who knows, I may appear before you advocating another interest some time in the future.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you talking about private broadcasters?

Information & Ethics committee  The act makes it quite clear that where you have information belonging to third parties and they've claimed confidentiality, you have to respect that. For instance, as I explained, private broadcasters file all sorts of information with us, and they claim that the release of it w

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to introduce my colleagues from the CRTC. Christianne Laizner is General Counsel, Telecommunications, and Graham Sheppard is the Senior Annual Returns Auditor. I understand that you have asked me to appear so that I can discuss the CRTC's admini

Industry committee  No, really I have not. I just want to thank you for interest in this matter. I can only say that we didn't take this decision lightly in the first place, as I pointed out to Mr. Lake. It took us three rounds to get what we thought was the right decision. We may not have got the

Industry committee  You keep saying “accept the caps”. This is a cap that Bell imposes on its own residential users. Bell's residential users—I don't know what the numbers are but it's in the millions. They've just said that when they resell, they want to impose that same cap on the people who take