Canadian Heritage committee  It doesn't help our producers. It doesn't help our--

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm being selfless. It doesn't help our producers.

Canadian Heritage committee  It should go to the artists.

Canadian Heritage committee  I got a call on August 8 saying that the program would be terminated, and then we had a follow-up letter afterward.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we've had a conversation with them. I sent them all the closing-down costs. In an e-mail of February 5 they said they will pay for the storage and shredding-related costs. Because we're a charity, we have to keep our books until 2015, which means we have to keep all our file

Canadian Heritage committee  I can show you the letter.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't account for the books. We're a not-for-profit, two-person organization that's just running to get work done. I don't know. I can't answer those questions. I don't have the answers.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I haven't seen it either.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I believe it was.

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe the department's priority is full-length feature productions. We produced documentaries.

Canadian Heritage committee  You'd have to ask them. I don't really see a coherent film policy to be able to say we fit in or we don't. I don't think there is a policy.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. You will find in my speaking notes a statement by the Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec, along with a comment from the Observatoire du documentaire, an organization comprised of 13 pan-Canadian associations.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I'll just read you some of the statements. DOC, the Documentary Organization of Canada, or L'association des Documentaristes du Canada, is a bilingual national arts service organization representing 800 members across the country. They said the following: With the disapp

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Twenty years ago a Conservative government launched a fund to help create Canadian content for use by Canadians in schools, universities, community centres, and libraries to support education and lifelong learning. The fund,

Canadian Heritage committee  Again I go back to CBC radio. I don't know why that's working, and nobody is complaining about that.