Canadian Heritage committee  The thing that seems obvious to me is that if you're in a culture that's producing television and you are directly next door to the largest producer of television on earth—being Hollywood—and while I think we love the idea of the quality of Canadian television being one that could compete internationally, that could be an export product, I think we also face the basic reality that anything made in Hollywood has an upper hand because of the ability for it to be promoted through American networks, through all the entertainment media.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Richard. For the CBC to play an important role in the area of Canadian programming, as we've said, it must be adequately funded, but it's been steadily constricted by a series of reductions to budgets stretching back through a string of different federal governments.