Canadian Heritage committee  I couldn't agree more with what you said. Let me relate some of the experiences we have had, because when we're not doing the cultural industries, we have to build knowledge systems for the BMWs and the Coca-Colas of the world. We do this for hundreds of millions of people. I w

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I'll forward several for the committee to consider, absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks for those comments. I'm an entrepreneur, so I'm generally an optimist, and I take the optimistic view of this. But there are those who take the dire straits view and the digital colony and what have you. We are a country that has only 2.5% of world GDP. We are a countr

Canadian Heritage committee  We have a very good workforce of people, we have an excellent university system, and we have some excellent knowledge workers, but they do need tools that are beyond any institution or any organization to create. We do need leadership. We need leadership to set standards. For e

Canadian Heritage committee  I apologize if perhaps the way I tried to phrase the last answer I led you to believe that I believe we're trailing. I don't think there's enough evidence yet to determine whether we're trailing or leading or what we're doing. That's what I was trying to refer to earlier, about w

Canadian Heritage committee  For the moment, I don't think it's clear enough. Certainly one can read OECD statistics, but I've spent some time reading OECD statistics and other commissions in work that I've done, and they can be misleading. So I don't think we can take one report of an OECD and then conclude

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me first say yes, absolutely we do, but let me then qualify it. We are very fortunate in Canada that we have a very sophisticated.... I don't know how to describe it any more than to say that we have a very sophisticated people. They are as good as anyone in the world. And I

Canadian Heritage committee  This was a study done as part of the Canadian Digital Media Network and Library and Archives Canada. It is basically the repository of the country. In our country, by act of Parliament—again, I'm not an expert on any of this—after World War II in the early 1950s, we had to microf

Canadian Heritage committee  There are many opinions on this. Are other countries launching digitized efforts? First, let me say that the other countries have the same problem we do. They're facing all these issues. Are they a few years ahead of us or a few years behind us? It depends on where they are. Yo

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, I'm an observer of the media world, and he's in the media world. As an observer of the media world, the single biggest thing I see across every country, everywhere I go, it doesn't matter where—Europe, America, Asia—is that the media companies are grappling with what we

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, thank you for inviting me to come and speak before you. Looking around the room, I don't think any of you know me, and I don't know you either, because I don't come from the cultural world, per se. I'm a Canadian but I'm an engineer, a techie--one of those digital