Official Languages committee  Yes, for 30 newspapers.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I don't have any answer to that question, honourable member Monsieur Choquette. It was a big surprise to us last October when we arrived for our committee consultative meeting. One of the things we were not pleased with was that we were not consulted, nor were we made aware tha

Official Languages committee  One of the first problems for many newspaper owners is quite simply that you can't make money on the Internet. The advertising difference between a newspaper and what you can get on a website is totally different. Three cents per click, or maybe a little bit per space on a banner

Official Languages committee  It's every week.

Official Languages committee  Ladies and gentlemen members of the committee and Mr. Chair, thank you for having us. We are here before you this afternoon as members of the consortium for official language community media serving anglophone and francophone minority populations. The three members of this cons

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I can, and quite elaborately, as a matter of fact. The West Island Chronicle, The Westmount Examiner, and The Gleaner belong to Transcontinental, or TC Media, which operates in part of Ontario and most of Quebec. They presently have 109 francophone newspapers. The West Isl

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I get $121,000 from Canadian Heritage. I get nothing from the ministry of communications and culture in Quebec, nothing, zero.

Canadian Heritage committee  They receive $40,000 to $60,000 per media. This is done through TC Media influence. I don't get that support.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I anticipated that question. We have a low membership fee. In return for that, we require that each newspaper donate four pages to us. I get to use that member-donated space to advertise our membership in the papers, or I get to use that space for advertising that the QCNA

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a good question. Our local readers are loyal, to answer the first part of your question. That's what keeps our numbers at that level, except when we have three newspapers shut down by corporations. Then we drop in our readership. For incentives we get zero funding from Q

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, honourable members, my colleagues who presented before me, and my colleagues at the table around me. Thank you for inviting the Quebec Community Newspapers Association to these very important proceedings. Quickly, our English and bilingual publications—we ha