Canadian Heritage committee  It is possible. I'll just give you an example. During my five-year tenure at the NFB, I moved from 7% co-production to 43% by the time I left. This is over five years. It is doable, and it's possible. The BBC has made a commitment that is very simple. From now on, rather than h

Canadian Heritage committee  It's very simple. As I said, as an entry, when you have a budget like $80 million that goes into the production of programming at the NFB and none of those products find themselves on the prime time television of the CBC, you have a serious problem. How can the taxpayers of this

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Kotto, since you want a written response, I would simply say that we need a strong public network in Canada and in the world. This also seems to be the consensus around this table. It would be an utter mistake to abdicate this universe to the free market. However, we have to

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me give you information about your kids. Today, in comparison to the generation of your children, kids are spending more time in front of their media than they are in school. One has to be extremely careful of that. As they are taught to become citizens, they are spending mor

Canadian Heritage committee  To my part of the question, that's been my message to you, as the standing committee. Publicly we invest close to $5 billion in audio-visual and communication as a country. In my view today--and that includes the National Film Board, in all due success with what it has to do. I'v

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, both entities need to be assessed differently. There is no doubt that there is a big difference between the two. In my opinion, there is more work to be done on the English side than on the French side. The French side is on the right path, but the Radio-Canada management

Canadian Heritage committee  You have three questions for me. Concerning CBC internationally, I think it is simply a matter of the CBC, as a public institution, having to take the leadership in this country for private and public broadcasters to gather together and be able to go after the international marke

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Si vous me permettez, my presentation will be larger and a bit wider than just sticking to technology, because having ended my mandate as a film commissioner, I think I've had the privilege to see our industry from a vantage point of view and I'd like

Canadian Heritage committee  This concept of service has to be the basic foundation. To prepare for the future it is crucial for CBC to think in terms of public good and sharing rather than in terms of monopoly and competition. In terms of track record, before I discuss new technology, I wish CBC was more