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Canadian Heritage committee But just as a last word on that, the over-the-air operators, as we said earlier, also own specialty services. If the audience is to revert back to the rabbit ears, they're going to be losing over the distribution of their speciality services. So there is an equilibrium somewhere
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee In your cable bill, you pay for your basic service, which is the over-the-air signals plus CPAC.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee There's the community channel that airs APTN, for which you're paying 25 cents.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee Well, that's for sure.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee Well, historically, it has always been like that: those who subscribed to cable way back in the early fifties—
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee No, no, not at all.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee No, no. Listen.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee Well, to answer your question, I will repeat... We talked about what happened in 1999, but in 1998, the commission held a hearing on some structural aspect—and I too was not part of the commission at the time. Producers lobbied the commission to promote drama series. The commiss
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee It has already been done. It's a matter of returning...
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee Pardon me?
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee That's right, but 10 years later, they are saying that the system they promoted did not produce the expected results. Because of that, producers would like to revert to the system from 10 years ago.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee The amount of $68 million that Mr. von Finckenstein just referred to has already been determined. It was set in a decision that we made at the end of 2008, when we established the fund and said that it would be equal to approximately 1% of the distribution undertakings' revenue.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee One thing that we have already done is to institute the Local Programming Improvement Fund.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin
Canadian Heritage committee In fact, there are all the regulatory aspects that go along with that. The quantum has not yet been set definitively.
May 25th, 2009Committee meeting
Michel Arpin