Canadian Heritage committee  I'm very impressed, Mr. Uppal.

Canadian Heritage committee  Viva Google. Homelessnation.org is another project that my colleagues have embarked upon to try to bridge the digital divide. We work with homeless shelters, and other people who work with Canadians who are homeless or living in poverty, to help them to train themselves in digi

Canadian Heritage committee  Fair dealing. Also, to speak to something that Jeff spoke to earlier, one of the fantastic programs we have in Canada, and that Heritage has supported, is the Canadian film and television producers' mentorship program. That does exist for the filmmaking community. I benefited fr

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, expand that to new players, but I think we have to create innovation regimes and legal regimes that support the creativity and the business models that these new players are going to want to create.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's really about critical thinking. It's one of the reasons that while the remixing I'm describing now might seem almost trivial to someone who has done it, it's a very practical application of critical thinking. It's about somebody who's able to deconstruct advertising

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, you can teach that, absolutely. You can teach it in school, you can teach media literacy. I think Canada ought to have a media literacy component in its public schools. There's no better way to teach it than to give a 13-year-old girl a bunch of advertisements that are clear

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, certainly; I don't know if I got that across in my presentation, but as I mentioned, we have done surveys within our membership showing that the cost of clearing copyrighted materials is growing exponentially. Obviously, for documentary filmmakers, this is particularly chall

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll be brief. I agree with Mr. Anders that the Canadian media fund is a great step in the right direction, but it still heavily favours the incumbency of the broadcasters. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, but there's also an experimental stream, and I know a lot of my

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Hello. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before the committee. As someone who has never voted for anyone who was ever elected, it's nice to participate in the democratic process--although, as the Pirate Party, as you know, was recently given status, you guys should all w