Official Languages committee  Our goal is to act as a catalyst, to encourage ideas. We will be asking people how they plan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in their communities. By bringing people together, we hope they will submit ideas. And through this process, we hope to connect them wi

Official Languages committee  That is one possibility, but these could also be entirely local events at the community level. For instance, a community association might organize an event and take advantage of the local paper. We hope to collect stories like these for our coverage of the country's 150th annive

Official Languages committee  We have not yet finalized our programming for 2017. The budgets are settled. Our goal is to be as present as we have always been during occasions of this nature and, leading up to 2017, to continue with the signature events approach I mentioned in my presentation. In 1967, we ha

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  I can assure you that our entire corporation will take into account the importance of the events leading up to 2017. We consider it part of our mandate, so as part of the anniversary celebrations, we will strive to honour Canadians' stories in a fitting manner.

Official Languages committee  Oh yes! I referred to VIA Rail and the Community Foundations of Canada, but there are many others. The news release we put out on Monday indicated that we already had the support of some 15 organizations for our conference series. On the programming side, we are currently lookin

Official Languages committee  We're talking about a whole. There are a number of milestones between now and 2017, in other words, major anniversaries that we will be covering because we consider them part of Canada's history. It is with those milestones and our programming content in mind that we are looking

Official Languages committee  There are two aspects to your question. If I may, I will first mention how our strategy for 2015 has been influenced by the recent events that have changed our budgets. The plan has not changed. Our objective is still to deliver Canadian programming in prime time, to be a public

Official Languages committee  That was how the series I mentioned earlier, 8th Fire, worked. We had an English version and a French version, so we were able to broadcast the same program to all Canadians in both languages. We used the same formula in a wonderful documentary called 1 Day or 1 jour. The day wa

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I am certain you will, Mr. Godin.

Official Languages committee  I always really enjoy listening to you, Mr. Godin. In your heart of hearts, you really are a huge fan of CBC/Radio-Canada and of the corporation's role. Several committee members and I have had the opportunity to talk about our strategic plan for 2015. The second pillar of the s

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good afternoon. It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon and to participate in your study on the 150th anniversary of Confederation and linguistic duality. I know that the committee postponed this meeting last fall when we were in the midst

Canadian Heritage committee  It's starting to be recognized by the advertisers. They will follow more numbers than simply the numbers we have on a particular evening program on the number of eyeballs that watched. It allows us to try to maximize, as we follow the people in their viewing habits, some of the r