Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I might have agreed with that statement even before you started asking those pointed questions, just from reading it, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I totally disagree. As we've indicated in our written document and in the oral presentation, we don't believe that there's any justification out there--any studies--that would support that statement.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure we know the answer to that. Do we know the answer to that, John?

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Not a large number of large-market broadcasters, if I may characterize them that way. The bulk of the licensed broadcasters who are actually functioning and who are not members would include very small-market radio broadcasters who are obviously not working in the area of televis

Canadian Heritage committee  There are two things. First of all, you just characterized Mr. von Finckenstein's statement as having suggested that there was a problem with very light fines. He didn't say that. What he said was that there is a range of possible recourses that go from the light end—that is, st

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, we don't keep tables like that, but the information, like everything we do, is entirely transparently available. Anyone who wished to look at our website could dig it up, but we don't keep anything like that. Let me, however, get to what I think you want out of thi

Canadian Heritage committee  No, not at all. The president, Mr. von Finckenstein, also gave you a very clear answer on Tuesday: like me, he isn't in favour of censorship at all. It's the public that decides whether there are problems. If it doesn't see a problem, who are we to say there is one?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's related to the fact of receiving no complaints. A single complaint is what it takes for us to start an investigation. It doesn't take 15, 20, 50 or 100: a single complaint can trigger the process. If no Canadians complain about a program, are you claiming that the government

Canadian Heritage committee  The change was made.

Canadian Heritage committee  I explained that to you, madam. You just gave me the contrary example by mentioning the 1.3 million complaints.

Canadian Heritage committee  I understand. Should Virginie Larivière have told Prime Minister Mulroney that she couldn't find a single person in Canada who was prepared to say that there was a violence problem and nevertheless have made her presentation? No. She came in 1991, supported by 1.3 million signatu

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not because of that. It's because you asked that the government take action, through either regulations or a self-regulatory system, depending on your preference, even in the absence of any complaints. That's censorship.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. We've already done a lot about delaying programming when it isn't at all appropriate to broadcast it before the later time slot. We don't need to change the act in order to operate in that area.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the number of gun shots, the number of arm swings, and so on and so forth. It's a really poor way to do it.