Canadian Heritage committee  It's London.

Canadian Heritage committee  Are you referring to London?

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Nantel, you will recall that one of the strategies in the 2015 plan was to open the public broadcaster where services were not being delivered, and where Canadians said they were underserved. In that context, new stations were opened in British Columbia and Alberta. We went t

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Lalande, would you like to answer this question?

Canadian Heritage committee  I know you made this remark to Michel Cormier when he appeared before this committee. I also know that Mr. Cormier, who is from your part of the country, apologized for it. He told everyone that the Samson family has very deep and extensive roots in Acadia. I reiterate Mr. Cormie

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to ask Heather to talk to you now about how we see this, for example, in the context of this reinvestment, how these dollars go to Canadian content and help us create content that Canadians want to watch in an environment where we are bumping into series invested in by

Canadian Heritage committee  We don't compete against the American giants. We have a mandate to deliver to Canadians the best possible Canadian content and to make sure that the lights shine on Canadian artists in prime time. We are able, through all of our platforms, to tell you what's going on in the world

Canadian Heritage committee  —but we are interested in the quality of the Canadian content—and I think that's where Heather wants to go—that is created to face actually being invested in by the Netflixes of the world.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to ask Mr. Lalande and Ms. Conway to answer that question, because the anglophone environment is characterized by programs broadcast in prime time. They are often the CBC's barometer of reference when comparisons are made between the CBC's series, and Netflix series.

Canadian Heritage committee  I thought that we had established for you, sir, that the way we deliver the news, the way the two media lines are looking for the information and the stories, the way that we make sure that these live on different platforms—these activities are not broken down per person, per pla

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm happy to see that you recognize that. Twenty years ago we were just about the first ones to go into digital. All the information was available to everybody around us, and we saw that. We also saw Canadians being interested in it, we saw where the audiences were going, and we

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't think that we have the same objectives in mind. The mandate we have is to deliver Canadian content to Canadians in prime time, which the privates don't have as an objective. They have a different business model, and that, sir, is okay. We are very proud of the Canadian

Canadian Heritage committee  In the context of the hockey contract, let us remember a few things. First off, like CTV, like Bell, CBC was surprised by a decision that all of the hockey went to Rogers, on a national basis and on playoffs, for $5.2 billion for 12 years. That's water under the bridge. Obvious

Canadian Heritage committee  Just a second, please. We lost the advertising revenue, but then we also reduced the costs accordingly. We didn't make money. I've said this in front of this committee before: we did not make money with the six-year contract that ended in 2014 when Rogers rebid. When you say

Canadian Heritage committee  You know that I will not agree with the comment you just made, sir, that we had no business plan. The 2020 plan had been there for a long time.