Canadian Heritage committee  Singapore, I think it was.

Canadian Heritage committee  I mentioned Singapore because they were so out there, but they still made a decision to invest massively. Australia is investing millions and millions of Australian dollars in terms of broadband. In Britain there's Digital Britain, and they just passed their Digital Economy Bill.

Canadian Heritage committee  Just so there's no confusion about this, it is not about opening up intellectual property rights. This is a decision of the property rights holder to offer it for free, and there are two aspects to it. One is public policy. Canadian taxpayers have paid for this content; they've i

Canadian Heritage committee  Part of it comes from looking at the history. We had Web 1.0, we had the dot-com bubble, and everybody thought that was it. Then everybody thought, “Oh, the plug's pulled. This isn't anything.” Then look at what happened, at how rapidly that whole situation just turned around.

Canadian Heritage committee  Ian will probably be able to answer this, but technologically, some of it has to do with the fact that we let our infrastructure slip. Madame Lavallée, for example, talked about--

Canadian Heritage committee  No, it's.... Take the bandwidth, for example. I talked about Singapore at one gigabit. We are at a fraction of those kinds of speeds. And speed here is a game changer. It allows you to do things; it's that ability. Secondly, on the mobile front, because of the lack of competiti

Canadian Heritage committee  It is the iPad; it is coming.

Canadian Heritage committee  I said that if more funding is forthcoming, that would be one of the priorities.

Canadian Heritage committee  Is there a question?

Canadian Heritage committee  I would like to make a comment on the first part. This information can be found in the annex to the document that we are going to provide to the clerk. We talk a lot about these challenges. For example, you just spoke about ensuring equality and fairness. That is really important

Canadian Heritage committee  Certain things are priorities. I made brief mention of the digitization of the collection. This is a major challenge, not just for the NFB, but for many countries. With the resources at our disposal, we have a strategic plan for automated digitizing. Three weeks ago, we attended

Canadian Heritage committee  We must finance Canadian content, but not simply the way we do it now. I believe that Ian, once again, spoke very appropriately about another way of looking at content. We are at the very beginnings of a new way of creating, and this will become more and more important. In a syst

Canadian Heritage committee  Clearly, we are a little tight financially, because we were not granted an increase and our funding is not indexed. Consequently, we have been in a de-growth pattern since the major cutbacks of 1996. However, since my appointment to my position three years ago, my aim has not bee

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. You'll notice how neatly I got around avoiding saying your surname there. I am very pleased to appear before you again on behalf of the National Film Board. I'm Tom Perlmutter. I'm the government film commiss