Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly, as the chairman of the CRTC said on the opening day of the hearing yesterday, there is the want and there is the need. On broadband itself, there are certain minimal aspects that can be considered an absolute need, but there's a whole lot of “want” in the whole broadba

Canadian Heritage committee  Minimal standards are certainly being discussed in the hearing over in Gatineau right now. I wouldn't want to venture to say any specific amount at this time. The information provided by the CRTC at the beginning of the hearing certainly does indicate that some minimums have been

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, I couldn't hear your question. I think I'd better put the earphones on.

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly it's reaching more people. It's also increasing the speed and the capacity in certain areas.

Canadian Heritage committee  For broadband expansion, those are obviously areas where we offer consumer Internet. Otherwise we are a national wireless company, and we have made significant investments to increase the capacity of our wireless network for both telephony services and data services, which are in

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, one of the points that we wanted to make is that traditional journalism is not the only way to convey information; in fact, it's not just the means of distribution, but the many formats, from comedy, to short-form documentaries, to opinion pieces, all of which serve to infor

Canadian Heritage committee  Your first question was about the investments we will make in Quebec. You asked whether they will go to broadband services. Yes, for the most part, probably. There are enormous needs in that area. The demand for more bandwidth is becoming increasingly intense. The more applicatio

Canadian Heritage committee  There is no doubt that that investment will help us greatly to continue to expand the network. The infrastructure in several communities clearly needs to be improved, and that investment is very welcome. It will bolster the private sector investment. However, in our opinion it st

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the ways of offering different costs is to offer different packages. This is the case throughout the industry. There are packages for the biggest users and others for the smallest ones. Most people only need a certain number of services. And so we offer special services to

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, absolutely. The CRTC is considering drawing upon a fund that supports community programming. This would be added to the amounts we spend ourselves to improve this programming. This money would be allocated to traditional local broadcasters. First, you need to know that the

Canadian Heritage committee  We announced this for Quebec last year and we have just made an announcement for Alberta. We have already made announcements and we are going to continue to do so. We continue to invest, year after year, because we need more and more bandwidth. It has become and continues to be e

Canadian Heritage committee  I did not understand your question.

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, the most important thing is to maintain the independence of the information, and several sources of information, so as to ensure that the information is not entirely controlled by the extremely concentrated media in Canada. Whether we are talking about the written

Canadian Heritage committee  We do a significant amount of outreach to find the local producers that are in our communities. At this time, those producers do happen to be francophones, as I've said, given the regions we serve. Once we move into larger metropolitan areas, that may very well change, and we d

Canadian Heritage committee  Generally we pay the producers who have their own equipment.