Canadian Heritage committee  Measures have been taken in other countries. As for amendments to legislation, to laws, I would say, however, that, to date, there are places where changes have been proposed, but implementation has not yet taken place.

Canadian Heritage committee  Just like the report of this committee, the note mentions that, since it was established, the sales tax in Canada does not apply to international companies selling services in Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. That is the first point. Some countries have recently implemented a form of sales tax that applies to those platforms, but the work at international level is still going on.

Canadian Heritage committee  The note, and Canada's fiscal policy are the responsibility of the Department of Finance, not the Department of Canadian Heritage. The note and the committee report mentioned that, in general, it is not just cultural products that the GST does not apply to, it does not apply to

Canadian Heritage committee  To give the scale, the existing funding for indigenous languages for the territories is $3 million a year, plus the funding through Yukon, which is through self-governing agreements through INAC. With the new funding at a steady state, it will be an incremental $8 million a year,

Canadian Heritage committee  That is correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  It doesn't reflect a cut in operating funds. It's the two capital projects, in both cases, that are coming off high. In the case of the Museum of History, the Canada Hall was a major capital project. That is, the expenditures were higher in the previous years and are coming down

Canadian Heritage committee  Any other capital...?

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll—

Canadian Heritage committee  There are. As part of budget 2016, $60 million over five years was allocated for capital backlogs focused on safety and other issues. That will be allocated between the major museums. That's an incremental amount coming in that's addressing some of those additional capital asks

Canadian Heritage committee  That was the other investment. The payment in lieu of taxes, which is a payment made to municipalities in lieu of taxes, hasn't been increased since authorities were transferred to the museum. Although their tax payments have increased, the government allocation to the museums

Canadian Heritage committee  In a technical sense, it is true that all crown corporations are subject to various limits, beyond which they have to ask for Treasury Board approval In my experience, the typical practice is for crown corporations to make their case, with all the details. That means that no dec

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's a great suggestion. Maybe to help us in that, I'm delighted that we've convinced Andrew Campbell to come over from Parks Canada to help us with the work on 2017. It was among Andrew's responsibilities at Parks Canada to help manage the team that ultimately found the

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe the committee had asked, at one of the previous meetings they had, for a split of the appropriated revenues versus the commercially generated revenues. A table was provided to the committee. That's the table that I have been reading off. It was in response to a question

Canadian Heritage committee  The challenge with 2014-15 is that there are estimates. The actual advertising revenues will not be known until the end of the year. For 2014-15 it shows, in terms of that, that 39.3% is the commercial revenue the CBC is generating and 60.7% is the appropriated revenues from the