Canadian Heritage committee  At the same time, it's important to state that a number of channels are currently seeking licence renewals. That clearly means that the business model one is associated with could imply a different distribution. People around this table may not know this, but for your information

Canadian Heritage committee  I would just like to make one very important point. At the present time, all the available content on the new platforms is from television. In that sense, yes, you may have different platforms on which you can watch content, but television will always be a choice vehicle.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not how you're going to plug in; it's where you're going to plug in.

Canadian Heritage committee  But then it should be a real concern for this committee in terms of Canadian content. Martha.

Canadian Heritage committee  Particularly for Quebec?

Canadian Heritage committee  Of the independent channels operating in Quebec, we have V which is the only private national channel operating completely independently of a cable company. As for the other independent channels, they are primarily specialty channels, like Astral, TV5 Québec Canada, Serdy Vidéo a

Canadian Heritage committee  That's Serdy Vidéo. Évasion and Zeste are part of Serdy Vidéo.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that correct. The thing is that they were given a licence a long time ago. At some point, maybe they should be asked why it took them so long.

Canadian Heritage committee  If you know the answer, I will let you give it.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, go ahead. You were asking us earlier what the solution was. I don't want to take up my colleagues' speaking time, because I think it's very important that they be able to present some cases. So, I will come back to this with reference to a point I made in my presentation. W

Canadian Heritage committee  The CRTC has allowed that rule to become the modus operandi in our industry. But at the same time, I think it would be unrealistic to try to go backwards. I think we should be moving forward, by imposing rules that promote diversified content and a diversity of choices with respe

Canadian Heritage committee  There is nothing theoretical about this. The fact is that when you have so many licence applications and so few Category 2 channels are being launched, it's clear that the reason is that a very powerful gatekeeper is preventing these channels from being distributed. I can tell yo

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chairman and Committee members, we have presented to you some of the realities facing independent broadcasters today and we have tried to be as direct as possible. Unless regulatory action is taken, the increasing concentration of ownership among television broadcasters and

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, good afternoon. First of all, we would like to thank you for your invitation to appear today. We are here today as members of Le groupe de diffuseurs indépendants, le GDI, an association of independent Canadian broadcasters. Let me intro