Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  There are 140 community and campus radio stations in Canada. As regards ARC du Canada, 25 stations are on the air but we have 31 active members.

Official Languages committee  Basically, as we told the CRTC, ARC du Canada radio stations are a training group for private and public broadcasters. The problem is that we cannot compete with them when it comes to salaries. If we could offer our hosts $50,000 like they do in the private sector, it would be e

Official Languages committee  In that case, we are looking at a program worth $500,000 per year. Its purpose is to help stations start up, so that they can purchase equipment.

Official Languages committee  The funds are for capital assets. However, there is nothing to fund existing radio stations.

Official Languages committee  There is some collaboration, but at the national level, we do a lot of work with the National Campus and Community Radio Association Inc., which represents anglophone campus and community radio stations and with the Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec. Now, w

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  We would clearly like to see some changes. That is why we undertook a review of the Community Radio and Campus Radio policy in January, before the CRTC. Essentially, we asked the CRTC to ease the rules, because we feel existing rules are too restrictive for our radio stations giv

Official Languages committee  Yes, they involved music, among other things. The CRTC has asked us to limit our pop or rock music to 80%. The rest, in other words 20%, up until now was made up of 12% country music, and 8% music from category 3, which includes jazz and blues. We are compelled to do that. We ack

Official Languages committee  Community involvement is part of our mandate. Unfortunately, not all stations, like CKRO, have the resources to do that. Some stations only have one employee. That person can't do everything, in addition to making representations before committees.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, there are so many of them.

Official Languages committee  It's just for music.