Canadian Heritage committee  Legislation is not created for theoretical reasons but to deal with a problem.

Canadian Heritage committee  Before you continue, Mr. Koto, I would like to qualify something: the Code concerning violence on television is a condition of the granting of a licence—

Canadian Heritage committee  .. to each broadcaster, and in fact, this is an act. If you want to be protected by the Broadcasting Act, you can indeed invoke this licence.

Canadian Heritage committee  There wouldn't be any change. Why? Because a law doesn't change anything.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is not a matter of opinion, but in this case it is an opinion that we do not share.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that the various communities in Canada do not necessarily share the same values,the same traditions, but generally speaking, the traditions of each of these communities should be promoted.There are certain exceptions when it comes to law and order that have to be made in

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not a sociologist, but I would say that generally speaking in Canada, this is a good thing. To my mind, the way multiculturalism is practised is a good thing for society, and I do not see how it is tantamount to the balkanization of communities. I believe that traditions are

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the question is a very good question. I don't know that it would be up to us in any way to advise the public broadcaster of what it should do, but what might be important, Mr. Abbott, is to look at it from the point of view of the Canadian people, of the population of thi

Canadian Heritage committee  I would prefer to leave you to take such an implication, if I may. I can speak to the validity of the system, and so on; whether it should be we who undertake such an activity on behalf of another broadcaster, the public broadcaster, is not a decision for us to initiate.

Canadian Heritage committee  There is. We use, first, the CAB code of ethics, which in clause 5 deals with news and in clause 6 deals with the full, fair, and proper presentation of news, opinion, comment, and editorial. We also use the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada code of journalist

Canadian Heritage committee  Merci, monsieur le président. Thank you very much, everyone. My name is Ronald Cohen. I'm the national chair of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. With me today is John MacNab, the executive director of the CBSC. I thank the committee for inviting us to express our views

Canadian Heritage committee  Should I shorten my presentation?

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, une minute. Second is the cost issue. I won't go into that in detail. You have it in my.... Well, you don't have it in my oral presentation, but you can. Any system, as Mr. von Finckenstein said, would be very expensive and intrusive. I should add, of course, that the pres

Canadian Heritage committee  Monsieur Bigras has relied in considerable measure on the fact that there was a Laval study in 2004. That's the study that has indicated a very significant increase in the number of violent acts. The trouble is that study—first of all, it's a little bit older than that—counts eve

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.