Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  On accountability, it seems to me that you might want to consider being more explicit about the criteria that guide the government when it makes appointments to the board. If you added criteria like knowing something about the arts and the history of this country in a substantial

Canadian Heritage committee  The German example is useful, I think. They have a number of radio orchestras, I think 11, if my memory serves me correctly, and those radio orchestras are advised directly and indirectly by local musicians. There is a close connection between university and conservatory music

Canadian Heritage committee  You asked whether or not you should fire the lot at the board. It seems to me that's an attractive proposition, I must say.

Canadian Heritage committee  But, really, our problem is that we can't even tell whether it's the board that took the decision. It's possible that Stursberg, Steinmetz, et al, have manipulated the board. How could we ever figure it out? We can't read the minutes. We're not invited to the meetings of the boar

Canadian Heritage committee  Could you soften the word “direct”?

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I don't think so. It seems to me that what Bramwell said a moment ago about the inability or the unwillingness--at any rate, the incapacity--of the president and the board to listen to Canadians is really the key question. It would be the same for any other crown corporati

Canadian Heritage committee  You can resume a number of the points that have been made around the table under one principle, and it is that the secretiveness and the arbitrariness of decisions that have been made by the CBC board bother us a great deal. Secrecy and arbitrariness are matters for you to consid

Canadian Heritage committee  That's enough, thanks.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm Bill Bruneau. I'm the chair of the Stand on Guard for CBC coalition.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and distinguished members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. The Stand on Guard For CBC coalition, of which I chair the executive committee, accepts the wisdom of an arm's-length relation between the government of Canada and the CBC/Radio-Canada