Canadian Heritage committee  You're a very loquacious person, Mr. Del Mastro—

Canadian Heritage committee  Your question—

Canadian Heritage committee  But you want me to tell the truth, don't you?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. Your question of Mr. Maavara consists of 300 words, okay? The speed—

Canadian Heritage committee  “Thank you, Mr. Chairman”, it says. In any case, we found the essence of it, and we sent the 50-word version of it out to people.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm entitled to—

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, if you would just let me—

Canadian Heritage committee  I am more familiar, as you know, with the anglophone services than the francophone services. From a distance, I am very impressed, as a viewer, with the francophone services. But I have, and the supporters of our organization have, a lot of concerns around certain changes in radi

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree completely.

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree completely.

Canadian Heritage committee  The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is an anglophone watchdog group. As I said, we're a watchdog for Canadian programming in radio-television and new media on the English language side. We hold hands with, when we can find them, people with similar values on the French languag

Canadian Heritage committee  No, but it's not because we did not ask. By the way, the questionnaire was not to Conservative voters; it was to Conservative donors. So that's a subgroup of the overall population. What I can tell you from our own research is that a strong majority of people who would vote Conse

Canadian Heritage committee  As you know, Mr. Rodriguez, when you measure dollars over time, you have to factor in inflation. In the case of Canada, it is the consumer price index. You can get it from the Bank of Canada website. When you want to compare the main estimates, tabled a couple of weeks ago, of $1

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said in my remarks, that applies to the Mulroney years, the Chrétien years, the Martin years, and the--

Canadian Heritage committee  How about a one-word answer: yes.