Canadian Heritage committee  Just to clarify, Shomi does pay taxes in Canada. Netflix is.... The non-Canadian services do not pay taxes. Yet we believe that all services should be operating on a level playing field, so that's something I think we would agree with.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are three primary funding mechanisms for the content we currently provide: the Canada Media Fund, CAVCO tax credits, and the Canada periodical fund. All of those programs right now don't necessarily support digital distribution, where we believe the industry is moving. On

Canadian Heritage committee  We came here primarily to talk about the state of local television, but the challenges that are facing local television have been facing the publishing industry for a much longer period of time. We have tried to get ahead of that curve by introducing new products like Texture, wh

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. With respect to the tax credits, I think our main recommendation is to review the eligible productions that can receive the benefit of the tax credit program and look to see whether there are measures that can be taken to support local news and information programming. Tradi

Canadian Heritage committee  As more media consumption moves online, obviously the issue of piracy and the illegal consumption of content becomes a larger issue. The government, in its last review of the Copyright Act, indicated that it had built in a five-year review time frame for that. I think that the is

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I would simply note that we did commission a research study in the context of our licence renewal to look at media usage patterns. It indicates that in the 55-plus demographic, 52% are accessing international news on the Internet, 45% are accessing national news, and 36% are

Canadian Heritage committee  Over the last three years we have made several attempts to raise awareness about OMNI's financial challenges and have suggested tangible policy and regulatory changes for how the system can support and govern OTA ethnic television in Canada. In 2013 we met with representatives