Canadian Heritage committee  Just very quickly, we do have some materials here to share that we've produced at the CTF. If anyone is interested, you're very welcome.

Canadian Heritage committee  We did review the suggested amendments and we found ourselves asking ourselves whether this would do what we wanted it to do, whether it would get at the broader areas of concerns we have, not only about television. We didn't see that it would. So we're saying, as we said in our

Canadian Heritage committee  I can answer that, and it's hot off the press: on average, students today put in 20 hours of TV time and 10 hours on the computer weekly.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't have the specific numbers, but we do know that increasingly it's coming over the Internet. We do know that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Just so I'm clear on your question, are you asking if we have numbers that are broken out into components or just numbers overall?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's absolutely an issue for us. We are very concerned when we draw attention to things or shed light on things. We are very aware that we don't want to be seen as being something that would be restrictive on freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and so on and so forth. And w

Canadian Heritage committee  The news out today in the Ottawa Citizen is something that is very sobering for us. It is the recent study out of Montreal, showing that teenage boys, up to 60% of them, spend 42 hours a week watching TV or playing video games. There are numbers in there with regard to the percen

Canadian Heritage committee  My answer to that would be yes, but I believe some regulatory body, be it the CRTC or something else, needs to be there to play a role with that, in our opinion. The second part of what we were talking about as a strategy was a protection strategy. That has to do with the whole

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, and we also have a partnership with the RCMP, looking for ways to work with it in developing curriculum that it can go into schools with and talk to schools about cyber-bullying.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was supposed to attend a meeting, at the invitation of the RCMP, with ISPs in Halifax about a month ago, and I couldn't attend because Halifax was fogged in, unfortunately. The intent of that meeting was that the RCMP wanted to speak with ISPs to say that they need to do someth

Canadian Heritage committee  Our position is that the bill may in some format have an impact on it, but we see it as a larger problem. It's only a piece of a greater puzzle that we're concerned about. For example, many TV programs that kids watch are accessed through the Internet. They access things like You

Canadian Heritage committee  I couldn't agree more. What we've done is part of an overall strategy of what we're doing as an organization to take on the issue. First of all, with regard to the “Kids’ Take on Media”, which was about TV, we have copies of this here if anyone is interested. It has a teachers' g