Canadian Heritage committee  I've sat in front of a panel of communications lawyers--and I'm not a lawyer--on the issue of whether fusion is a good idea or not. They all said, “Well, if you fused the two acts, you'd still have to create a broadcasting act within the same one, and they go through the legal an

Canadian Heritage committee  We got into the whole question of machinery in our paper because we felt you can't just say what the issues are; you have to sort of point to a way to resolve them. So you had on the table a suggestion of a royal commission from the CRTC chair at the time. We feel that's a little

Canadian Heritage committee  There are probably other things. As you know, co-production treaties have been around for 30 or 40 years. We--government, etc.--have been trying to revise them and modernize them and update them. There are certain provisions in there that would make it easier for producers to eng

Canadian Heritage committee  My name is Peter Lyman. I'm the senior partner of Nordicity Group. I want to clarify that I'm here on behalf of Nordicity itself and not with the CFTPA. CFTPA is a valued client of ours, among other clients, but we just happen to be, by coincidence, packaged together for this ses