Finance committee  I think we're starting from a base of strength. The access to strong Canadian content has been a priority of successive governments for a long time. In the anglophone part of the country where the competition from American programming is more severe and intense, I think one of th

Finance committee  Even if it's something of benefit to Mr. Godfrey, I'm still in.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, I thank you for allowing the organization Friends of Canadian Broadcasting to appear before you today. On August 5, we submitted a proposal to you which contained several ideas for Budget 2017. Today, I am going to discuss subsection 19(1)

Canadian Heritage committee  We would be pleased to send you a detailed comment on that.

Canadian Heritage committee  What would we have said, had we had 11—?

Canadian Heritage committee  Go ahead, Peter.

Canadian Heritage committee  We believe Mr. Grant, Mr. O'Regan. The main point, however, is that you're not looking at two TPP experts here, but at two people who are saying to you, why don't you investigate that? You have access to the best brains in the Department of Justice, if you choose to ask them som

Canadian Heritage committee  None of them have faced for as long and as strongly as the English-speaking part of Canada has the huge “satellite reign”, as it used to be called, of Hollywood in their country. Canada has had a continuing struggle, since the early days of the CRTC and before, to maintain a shar

Canadian Heritage committee  If you look at the Broadcasting Act digitally and search for the word “consumer”, you will find it towards the end, around some of the powers of the CBC to sell goods and services to consumers. That's the only reference in the Broadcasting Act. The former government, in the thro

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a sea change. I mentioned in my remarks some of the things that have gone by the wayside. For instance, no longer a majority of programs in our system are Canadian; no longer a majority of channels reaching Canadian homes are Canadian; not treating the Internet-delivered p

Canadian Heritage committee  First, as I mentioned, if I were in charge, I would develop a list—

Canadian Heritage committee  If I were in charge, I would develop a list of things that the over-the-top providers should be doing. At the very top of the list would be that they should be collecting the same taxes from Canadians as their Canadian competitors. It's just not fair that I can.... Well, until re

Canadian Heritage committee  We are about one month into that skinny basic, and the best estimates I've seen, Mr. Waugh, are that about 4% of Canadians will go for it. I think that whether or not Bell is making or losing $12 million on something—and Peter can give you some decimal points—my overview would be

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd add something, Mr. Vandal, with respect to the comment about the advice of Canadian Heritage officials. I would put it this way: If the conclusion they're moving to is wrong, there will be a real crisis in this country. If it is right, that's good news. But there's the old ad

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Vandal, I would just add that if you had to focus on one group of local television stations, it would be the 23 members of a coalition called the Coalition of Small Market Independent Television Stations. These are not part of the vertically integrated companies and they're o