Canadian Heritage committee  If we cannot control the liberties that broadcasters take, how do we imagine that, one day, we will be able to control the abuse that is happening on the Internet, like the fraudsters and pedophiles who are running wild on an international scale? When I was young, I would never

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, these results have been published in newspapers. At any time, you can read in the papers that...I read an enormous amount, all the papers, and I discovered, for example, because I just wanted you to...For sure, the figures that I have given you have been published in newspap

Canadian Heritage committee  That is when you realize how big our country is. It is clearly a problem. I do not claim to be an expert who is able to solve these problems. I am, like the government and a number of other people, a little out of my depth there. Nevertheless, I thought that if we were to encoura

Canadian Heritage committee  You mention radio stations. I started doing radio when I was 14, about 70 years ago. Radio was better then than it is today. I regret that and I find it unfortunate to see radio stations allowing, for example, so-called comedians swearing and saying terrible things on the air. Ki

Canadian Heritage committee  I think so.

Canadian Heritage committee  Exactly. Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, thank you; that helps me to clarify my position.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that if we improved the regulations governing the time when broadcasters can show those horrible things that are disturbing for everyone, not just children...Terrible things are happening in our society, that we did not see 25 years ago. There are street gangs attacking e

Canadian Heritage committee  At that point, there is no doubt that it would essentially amount to censorship. If we take too strong a position and we ban the broadcasting of violent programs even during the night, that would definitely be censorship. If that were the case, it would frighten me. My main goal

Canadian Heritage committee  My friend, you remind me that there are times when discretion is the better part of valour. No broadcaster is going to invite me to come and lambaste its programming. They will tell me that I can stay home if that is what I have to say. Anyway, they do not invite me. But communit

Canadian Heritage committee  They are very serious about it.

Canadian Heritage committee  If all a child sees are situations where people have no respect for each other and kill each other, if all he watches are violent films where everyone uses guns or knives to solve problems, he is going to believe that that is how problems are solved in real life. I think this is

Canadian Heritage committee  That is correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, it is needed. I did not come to give anyone orders, but if my suggestions were seriously considered, there would be no one happier than me. We are not asking for censorship, we are just asking that our children are less exposed to things that have an insidious and

Canadian Heritage committee  In this case, I think that the CRTC should operate using formal legislation.