Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would need to become more familiar with that code before I could answer.

Canadian Heritage committee  Could you be a bit more specific?

Canadian Heritage committee  We're not the ones purporting that there's a link. We think that's in great dispute, that there is a relationship between violent content on television and violence in society.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can speak to this. Some studies have recently been done about actually bringing that into question and actually disreputing this relationship. I would have to look through my file to find the exact notation. That is in dispute.

Canadian Heritage committee  The association played a big role in the Little Sister's case. We were a co-plaintive. We fund-raised on behalf of the owners of Little Sister's to be able to litigate it. Sadly, it's still ongoing, despite the 2000 ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada. What we can learn fro

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we would disagree with that. This is something I would have to take to my board for a more definitive answer. But we generally take a principled approach to free expression. This is an almost non-negotiable point with us. Whether it's government regulated or privately reg

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  The position paper that Mr. Siksay is referring to is one that we had drafted in 1995, I think specifically relating to violent programming directed towards children, and specifically with regard to the technology of the V-chip, which at the time was coming into prominence. The

Canadian Heritage committee  Our concern, I think, is that it doesn't prohibit the prohibition of news content. It doesn't state the value of free speech in political, creative, artistic expression, and I think that's very problematic.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're asking in terms of how...?

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean in this specific circumstance?

Canadian Heritage committee  To date, I believe there is a 9 p.m. threshold that the commission has decided to uphold. I know there were hearings held, but I don't know the logistics of how, if this were to be passed into law, the actual commission would make the laws. It's very vague, so I'm assuming that t

Canadian Heritage committee  If the question is about subsection 163(8) of the Criminal Code, that's a separate case. We're using that as an example of how the delegation of powers went wrong. In that case, the delegation of power to determine what was obscene was given to customs officials. In that case the

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.