Official Languages committee  Mr. Godin, there are various aspects to your comments; let me start with the mandate set out in the Broadcasting Act. Today, I wanted to highlight the fact that, each time a decision is made at CBC/Radio-Canada, the goal is to provide Canadians with services that will live up to

Official Languages committee  You are absolutely right, Mr. Godin. I did not say today that we could meet the expectations of all Canadians everywhere, given the current environment. In the documentation, there is a graph that shows the level of public funding per capita that public broadcasters receive in v

Official Languages committee  I am sorry. I did not hear the last part of your comment.

Official Languages committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the committee. Thank you for your interest in CBC/Radio-Canada. As the chair mentioned, with me this morning is Patricia Pleszczynska, who is responsible for our regional services at Radio-Canada, and in particular, our services to francophone

Status of Women committee  I think that we are working in stressful environments. You compare our lives with the lives of MPs. We have deadlines, as you do. We have on-air. We don't want to go black; that would be a bad thing. We'd like The National to start on time. We'd like Peter Mansbridge, when he smi

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, It is a joint initiative; the proposal was made by the unions. Not only did we think it was a good idea, we also participated in the training and the organization of the seminars. We are very proud of those seminars. As Monique said, we are presently developing the se

Status of Women committee  In the respect in the workplace seminars, we pay a lot of attention to words used in interactions between people, even if there is a deadline, even if there is a lot of pressure, even with a breaking news story. Often, if people are not very good with words, their way of speaking

Status of Women committee  There are a lot of aspects to your question. I will let Monique get her answer organized. But, in any case, we have to recognize the fact that we have about 8,590 employees and that we are working in 48 different cities. To provide access to training that makes sense, we are wor

Status of Women committee  I do not want to impute any motives to Québecor. I do not wish to go off on a campaign against Québecor. But I want to submit as evidence the importance that CBC/Radio-Canada attributes to matters of harassment. That is why we are reacting so clearly and so fiercely. We felt that

Status of Women committee  It wouldn't be very helpful because they are not a member of that.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  I'm just going to summarize quickly because I heard the one-minute bell. There are online training, surveys, making sure that we have a conversation going about these issues on a constant basis and being aware, and making sure that everybody else in the corporation is aware, tha

Status of Women committee  Of which I think you also have a copy.

Status of Women committee  Let me just finish Monique's answer. In the priorities that CBC/Radio-Canada has clearly established since 2008, people are our absolute priority. Then there are our programs and, third, what we call our strategic planning. We have worked very hard to improve our relationships,