Canadian Heritage committee  I will see what we can give you, but I do not think it will give you an exact picture of what they receive per service. We do however have the total.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can confirm that because it is on my cable invoice, but we can provide you with that information.

Canadian Heritage committee  The problem is that there is no way of knowing the exact figures with regard to the American channels. We only have the total amount. However, I do know that the total amount of carriage fees increased by approximately 25% last year.

Canadian Heritage committee  First off, the anglophone market will not receive $60 million, but rather some $40 million. We will be taking part in a public hearing next week and we will be broaching this subject. Is it the solution to the problem? It will not have an impact on our revenues, which will conti

Canadian Heritage committee  Can I translate that? I think the interpretation system is not functioning.

Canadian Heritage committee  If I may just add something, one of the issues here is the whole question of consolidation, and I think that's where you're going with this question. Just to be clear, in 1994 and 1996, in both of those rounds, there were specialty applications being considered by the CRTC. We a

Canadian Heritage committee  To answer your question very quickly—and I know Ruby Dhalla also asked the same question a couple of times—what we said specifically to the commission is that we actually tied fee-for-carriage to local programming. What we said, clearly, to the commission was that we need to know

Canadian Heritage committee  You know, as Mr. Fecan said earlier, maybe it wasn't made.... I think it was clear that the commitment would come afterwards. I think that's probably what the chairman was telling you also when he appeared before you, that we didn't make the concrete hourly commitment at the time

Canadian Heritage committee  Concerning local programming, the competition is not fair. Canadians have access to hundreds of TV channels and a broadcasting system that is among the most diversified in the world, but the Canadian television market is one of the most complex, competitive and regulated that exi