Canadian Heritage committee  It's been typically the same I think over several years: late night, one hour, with the exception of Vancouver, our home games. There we had about 65 hours of coverage. It was much better. We had live opening and live closing ceremonies thanks to MPs who I think pressured CTV int

Canadian Heritage committee  That's been our experience to date.

Canadian Heritage committee  We really need to surround the wagons around CBC to make sure they're going to get a good broadcast deal. We're not looking for money. We're looking for air time and exposure. We even had to pay our own rights fee to the consortium.

Canadian Heritage committee  To be able to own the broadcast rights for the Paralympic Games in Canada—the Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium would not pay for those rights to the London organizing committee—it was $140,000. We had to pay for those rights so that we could actually get the little bit of air c

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not easy, as you know, to develop curriculum and to get it into every school across the country, but we have an incredible curriculum piece right now that is highly regarded by teachers. We're working very hard on that. We are collaborating with Toronto 2015 in the, let me

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, that's a big part of what we're working on very closely with Variety Village, the Abilities Centre, and other facilities like those across the country. We're helping to finance specialized equipment or recreational wheelchairs so the kids can play wheelchair basketball. The

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a shame. Some people even say it's 25%. There are a lot of great outcomes and benefits from investing in some of these facilities and activities. We're trying to do it as cost-effectively as we can and as much as we can on the backs of corporate Canada as well. But thank

Canadian Heritage committee  With respect to the Toronto games in 2015, we work very closely with the Toronto Pan Am and Parapan Am Games organizing committee with Ian Troop and his full team. We're in conversations every week and are working on a number of fronts to achieve what you've just talked about. It

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely, and I think Anne can answer part of that. If there's any time left, I'll answer as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  Since I've taken this job, my elbows have certainly gotten a little bit sharper in trying to toss them around a little bit more to make sure there is equitable and respectful treatment of all of our athletes. In many cases that is true; they are treated very, very well and very e

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't really answer that; I have to be honest—

Canadian Heritage committee  In the context that the parade was called the Olympic Heroes Parade, it was organized by the Canadian Olympic Committee. We officially had five athletes who were invited to attend, so I respectfully refused that invitation. How do you pick five athletes out of 145? We gradually g

Canadian Heritage committee  I wish I knew the answer to that. It is true. I see it every day, our athletes see it all the time. The Olympic athletes come home, and professional athletes, and they get bonus money for competing. Watches and jewellery are tossed at them. Our athletes simply don't receive that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be here today to talk about our wonderful paralympic team and the Paralympic Games in London. We had an exceptional experience two years ago in Vancouver at our home games in 2010. That really provid