Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, the local advertising market is fairly flat. The precipitous drop, if you will, is on the national side, and it is the source of revenues that makes it possible for our members to spend more on digital television, Canadian programming, local programming and so forth

Canadian Heritage committee  The crisis is on a number of levels, including the erosion of ad share in the local market. We're hearing today that there are other players that would also like to access local ad revenues. There's a crisis in terms of national ad share. There's the crisis in terms of the loomin

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Pierre-Louis. When it comes to private television, we mostly see costs, but at least in the short term, we do not really see great business opportunities. We have to shoulder costs of $328 million by August 31, 2011.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Pierre-Louis. We are on page 3. Our broadcasting system offers hundreds of choices, the majority of which are Canadian. It is clearly the preferred option for Canadians. Today, we have more choice per capita than people in the United States, the United Kingdom, Franc