Canadian Heritage committee  Overall per year?

Canadian Heritage committee  Somewhere around $7 million last year.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to point out that in Quebec we offer our Optik TV service only in certain areas, not across the province. Those areas are mostly around Rimouski. There's not a lot of demand for English-language programming in those areas.

Canadian Heritage committee  We certainly offer all of the programming services available in Quebec so that all of our subscribers have access to every single news service and other programming services in French and in English. We operate a full complement of all programming services: CTV, TVA, and all of t

Canadian Heritage committee  From our community programming service?

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we will.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would hate to pre-empt my colleagues who will be speaking next week at the CRTC hearing. Certainly this is an important issue, and one that we believe is dealt with. It's an important social issue for all to have access to broadband. We also need to keep in mind the tremendous

Canadian Heritage committee  First off, our community programming service is not monetized. Instead, it is a public service that we offer to the communities we serve. It's part of our philanthropic efforts in all the various communities, and it's also part of the required contribution that all broadcast dist

Canadian Heritage committee  Other than TV....

Canadian Heritage committee  Right. Essentially all of our funding goes for Optik Local, a television platform. It is video-based, available on various other platforms, but it is a video service. If you're asking if we contribute to print media, it's only through our other philanthropic efforts to the exte

Canadian Heritage committee  Most of the grants go to the grassroots organizations in the community. They are determined from the ground up. They are determined by the communities themselves. I can give you examples in Ottawa. I was a member of the Telus community board here. We received anything from appl

Canadian Heritage committee  Each community board certainly does extensive research. These community boards themselves are composed of some very prominent members of the community. Here in Ottawa we had the head of the United Way, for example, who obviously has a very keen understanding of what the need is i

Canadian Heritage committee  Telus certainly has looked at launching various programs, and we have offered numerous grants to communities. We have a system for philanthropic activities that we administer through community boards. Various boards across the country comprise both members of the community as wel

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, and thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before you on this important issue of media and local communities. My name is Ann Mainville-Neeson, and I'm vice-president of broadcasting policy and regulatory affairs at Telus. With me i

Canadian Heritage committee  The Storyhive success, the innovation that we've brought to the table for the committee today, as far as we know, no other competitor is doing that type of platform. We certainly would agree with Mr. Provencher that consumers have to come first in determining some of the progra