Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for being the only one who's fighting for CBC/Radio-Canada in your riding. I greatly appreciate that. It's very important. Values, and making sure that we express a diversity of voices, is one of the very important priorities. As the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Cana

Canadian Heritage committee  This started with a television program also, because there was a television program every Sunday evening, Village on a Diet. That was the program. The challenge was there, transformed into a web, a very far-reaching initiative, and a conversation that then went to all the platfor

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam, we are very well aware of the important role the public broadcaster plays in delivering services to French-speakers outside of Quebec or the Ottawa region, even though that is where 90% or 91% of francophones live in Canada. However our commitment to the francophonie goes

Canadian Heritage committee  You're going to be very happy to hear that, on the contrary, we've recommitted to Coronation Street.

Canadian Heritage committee  So it's going to go back to 6:30.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's why it doesn't show on your sheet, going forward.

Canadian Heritage committee  We used the word "reinvention" several times at Radio-Canada. In English, we say "innovative disruption" to talk about the changes we are dealing with. Approximately 500 jobs in the radio and television environment are going to be transformed into digital jobs. So this is a trans

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Training and development in an environment where everything is changing every few minutes, every few seconds—you know how fast this type of change happens—is highly important for us. In fact our investment in training employees is one of the items we are trying to pre

Canadian Heritage committee  To put this comment in perspective, I will quote an approximate figure of 40%, which corresponds to the proportion of the workforce that will be reaching retirement age in the next four years. This does not mean that these employees are going to retire but that they will have rea

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you want to talk about our investment in film?

Canadian Heritage committee  In June 2010 we came out and said that we were going to put out 27 transmitters where we have originating programming, meaning that every place in this country where you have a program that we create will have a digital transmitter. That investment was a $60-million investment. W

Canadian Heritage committee  It doesn't affect us that much, except that we actually sold inventory to Netflix. We have an agreement with them. We've provided them some content that the other Canadian players didn't want. So actually for us it was additional revenue. We sold them inventory that nobody wanted

Canadian Heritage committee  The local news programs obviously also benefited a great deal from that fund. Christine, what can you tell us about initiatives?

Canadian Heritage committee  The answer is not right now. This concept of TOU.TV is one that showcases not only our own programming but the programming of other public broadcasters in the world. Maybe we can talk about TOU.TV in a second. It's a little different on the English side, frankly. The need might

Canadian Heritage committee  Evan's show.