Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Our positions are based on commission and purchase.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, but you have to ask yourself if that documentary is an in-house documentary. Is it commissioned? Is it commissioned from a Canadian producer or from an international producer? It's never clear.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  It has been an excellent outlet for independent documentary producers, for the most part, since they don't have any in-house programming. They have been a great purchaser of Canadian documentaries.

Canadian Heritage committee  Now, before we review the facts, it should seem fairly obvious that the historic fit between the CBC and documentaries is rather long-standing. As CBC's mandate outlines, their duty is to accomplish many of the same things that documentaries aspire to achieve: to be distinctly Ca