Official Languages committee  The answer is yes, but only on certain conditions. Let me outline some of the requirements I was told about yesterday on the phone with respect to Tuesday's offer. CBC/Radio-Canada would have to set aside its entire commercial inventory and forego all its revenue. It would not be

Official Languages committee  If the consortium gives us access to the site, and a business plan is put in place that makes sense and reflects the conditions set previously, the answer would be that time is of the essence. As a general rule, it takes two years to plan coverage of the Olympic Games, and there

Official Languages committee  Yes, their bid was $63 million higher.

Official Languages committee  Also, I would like to explain what would happen to our programming if we accepted the offers that are on the table. The arithmetic is rather strange. We are being asked to exclude Quebec. There are one million Francophones outside Quebec. They have access to all of Radio-Canada's

Official Languages committee  I would just like to add that, in addition to Francophones outside Quebec, there are also Anglophones in Quebec who have neither cable nor satellite and do not receive certain signals. Let me give you an example. Bell ExpressVu does not carry the Ottawa signal in the Ottawa regi

Official Languages committee  We responded to their request, because we wanted to find a solution. We engaged in discussions with people at CTV and RDS to see what kind of arrangement we could make. That was two years ago, when it was still technically possible to do it. We could be co-producers. We set a num

Official Languages committee  I just want to say that profitability is in relation to the cost of purchasing rights. That is the main expense. Because they paid a lot more than what we would have paid to secure those rights, it will not be easy for them to make a profit from coverage of the Games.