Canadian Heritage committee  No.

Canadian Heritage committee  That is consistent with recommendations of this committee over the years, too; it's not a new idea. It's something that has been suggested for quite a while. The problem is that it's a bit of a vocabulary question. By that I mean that no one is going to take away the sovereign

Canadian Heritage committee  The contribution can be better guaranteed.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have about one and a half minutes to go. Will you let me do it?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I'm going to have to cut a quote from the late Dalton Camp. Getting out of the broadcasting business sounds a lot like killing CBC Radio, CBC Television, CBC News Network, cbc.ca, and their French language counterparts. This disturbing comment was coming from the mouth of

Canadian Heritage committee  It will be necessary for the clerk to have them translated.

Canadian Heritage committee  We think there are two really big problems. One of them I had time to refer to in my brief remarks, and that is the gap between its mandate and its resources. The evidence of CBC dealing with that gap is visible for all to see. But I'll take a moment to refer to the other probl

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. The last time I was at a parliamentary committee it was your committee. It was just another committee. Mr. Chair and members of the Committee, thanks for inviting Friends of Canadian Broadcasting to appear today. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is an indepe

Industry committee  I apologize, Mr. Wallace; I didn't notice.

Industry committee  I passed out, perhaps before you arrived, CRTC's ownership data. At the very top of the very front page is the ownership of BCE. I understand that some half a million Canadians are owners of that company. But it seems to me that there is a tension between two values that you ar

Industry committee  One idea, going back to Mr. McTeague's question of the industry officials last week, is that if there is indeed a threat that an 800-pound gorilla is going to be created through a merger, maybe in anticipation of this rather than after the fact the government might consider what

Industry committee  When the CRTC inevitably appears before you, you might put on your agenda, in questioning them, to talk about—and it's possible that I have the name wrong, as it's just coming out of my brain—a “national contribution fund” that they have mandated, whereby telecommunications provi

Industry committee  That's a good question, by the way, which you might consider posing to the people from the Library of Parliament. They could do some research to answer such a question. I would say, in a general way, in response to your comment and to get back to fundamentals, that it is establ

Industry committee  I referred to section 7 of the Telecommunications Act and consequently section 16. I think the framers of the legislation almost 20 years ago--or 18, whatever it is--were pretty good at formulating. They understood that the telecommunications system is a public good that is impor

Industry committee  No. When you say the government has no intention of touching the Broadcasting Act, those words are more rather than less comforting, but they are insufficient. I won't repeat everything I said in my initial remarks. Because of the integrated nature of the broadcasting industries