Official Languages committee  You better believe it, Madam, that it has a role. It used to be every five years, and the last time we had to wait 13 years, but it brings us in front of it. It looks at the contribution of the CBC in what we famously call the “media ecosystem” in the country. It understands th

Official Languages committee  They are completely embedded into the media lines, not another layer. We are asking our staff, nos artisans, our CBCers, to work with these tools because that's what allows us to do more. As you saw from Sochi, one Canadian out of three didn't go to a television to watch the Ol

Official Languages committee  We reach them by providing podcasts, by involving them in social media, by sending them to our catch-up TV sites, by Tou.tv, for example, where you don't have to actually be in front of your television set on Tuesday nights at 9:00 to watch Les enfants de la télé, you'll watch it

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  I'm happy that you're into numbers because, you know what, I'm into numbers too, particularly in the environment we are in. We have partnerships and commercial agreements with Netflix. For example, some of our programming that was not used and, frankly, that was living on shelve

Official Languages committee  Ms. St-Denis, I'm going to ask Patricia to give you an idea of the contribution the regions have made to the network, particularly as regards information, and the way we increasingly reflect the regions in our information. In fact, we are aware of that aspect of our mandate. How

Official Languages committee  No, there is no contradiction. You have surely been following what Rogers is going to do. Rogers’ business model is simple; they are going to transform CityTV into a hockey platform; actually, they are going to take all their specialty channels and turn them into hockey channels

Official Languages committee  When you say losses in private-sector revenue, you probably want to talk about advertising revenue. The choices that we have explained to you are set in a context of increasing revenue and cutting costs. We are working in an environment in which our base funding has not increase

Official Languages committee  Clearly, that is the government’s decision. The government decides what it wants to do with its public broadcaster. We are doing what the Broadcasting Act requires, doing what we can with the means of funding currently available to us.

Official Languages committee  Quite the opposite. We consider that the regions have to do their part for the effort, given the extent of the cuts. However, according to our mandate, the regions are key to our daily services. I will ask Ms. Pleszczynska to explain to you how we consult people. We go to the com

Official Languages committee  We made that choice in order to be able to keep the news service.

Official Languages committee  Do you want me, Mr. Chairman, to answer the last comment?

Official Languages committee  In a context like this, I always come back to the same thing. We announced major cuts in order to balance our 2014-2015 budget. The environment we find ourselves in is changing. We have given you a picture of the funding to which public broadcasters have access, according to the

Official Languages committee  Your question contains a number of smaller ones. Let me start by telling you about our Canadian listening and viewing audience. In that area, we are doing quite well. First, BBM has just announced the market shares from its winter surveys. Radio-Canada's are up everywhere. With

Official Languages committee  Correct.