Canadian Heritage committee  We'll cooperate, Peter and I. Local news is the predominant local programming of television stations. They tend to go to networks or feed most of their other programming from elsewhere. As I said at the beginning, local news is synonymous with local television. It's the preponder

Canadian Heritage committee  And I have four more minutes to speak. Second is CRTC policies. The government has the right under sections 7, 15, 26, and 28 of the Broadcasting Act to ask the commission to reconsider decisions and policies in view of the government's broadcasting policies and priorities.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, I was going to congratulate you on your long survival as a member of Parliament, but I don't have time to do that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for inviting us to appear today. My name is Ian Morrison. With me is Peter Miller, who has broad expertise in Canadian media issues, including local television, which, as you know, is synonymous with local TV news. Television

Finance committee  They are private television networks. They compete with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, whose English-language network is 60% funded by advertising, but they have nothing to do with public radio, such as, for example, the station that Ms. McLeod referred to a few minutes a

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  One of the principal differences, Mr. Jean, is that in prime time they are delivering Canadian programming to Canadians, whereas the other networks you mention are buying Hollywood programming and wrapping Canadian ads around it. That's where their revenues come from.

Finance committee  You have that in common with many politicians.

Finance committee  I think it's a bit far-fetched, but it doesn't require that scenario to be accurate for all of the concerns I have expressed to be valid.

Finance committee  He's a very distinguished Canadian journalist who is working in Oregon.

Finance committee  I'll endeavour to find out if he's actually—

Finance committee  Yes, I do.

Finance committee  There are no friends of CBC here today either. We are an independent organization.

Finance committee  [Inaudible—Editor]...inappropriate, Mr. Jean.

Finance committee  Yes.