Canadian Heritage committee  We're beginning to get some statistics around television. It's virtually in all major movies. It is available on the DVD. However, at the cinema, persons with the disabilities are not necessarily going to be able to go to the cinema and enjoy that movie with their family. To put

Canadian Heritage committee  We have done some experimentation in live programming, as well. In fact, CTV broadcast Dancing with the Stars live, and it was just fabulous.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I guess it's not necessarily a CRTC approach to 2040; it's that if they go at the same rate they're going now, that's when we'll finally get there. So that is the correct year, at the rate they're going now and are continuing with.

Canadian Heritage committee  What's interesting is that on the other side they don't record the closed captioning that is “brought to you in part by”. I don't know whether you are familiar with that particular piece of advertising. It was originally created to underwrite the costs associated with captioning.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely not. The CRTC puts out a monitoring report. If you search that monitoring report, which is supposed to be a snapshot of broadcasting, the word accessibility doesn't exist in it, nor the word captioning, descriptive video—nothing exists in it. There's no empirical evide

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly there is the cost issue, but relative to the system itself the costs are not large, and there are also solutions to bringing down costs. It requires technical innovation. It requires all kinds of things. The technology exists today; it has to be put together. That's why

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Beverley Milligan and I'm the executive director of Media Access Canada or MAC, a not-for-profit advocate for broadcast accessibility. With me is Yves Seguin, the project manager of MAC's descriptive video working group for French television.

Canadian Heritage committee  Data about the quality and quantity of accessibility will be available next spring, when we publish the first results from a one-year content analysis of programming made possible by the support of CTV, Industry Canada, and Ryerson University. The studies measuring the quantity a

Canadian Heritage committee  Vertical integration did not cause but can solve these problems, partly because production and distribution companies are merging and partly because these mergers create benefits for Canadian broadcasting. As you may know, the CRTC requires benefits from ownership changes. Table