Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not really. I think we will let the committee come up with the—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, it's difficult to know. It's complex. You have a difficult task in figuring this out, and who this person or this group would report to. There are a lot of questions you have to ask and get answers for. You know, I think experts on democracy, the people who have been there

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, first of all, thank you very much for your vote of confidence. We're really proud of what the channel is accomplishing and its reputation over 25 years. I've been with it for not even two years, so it's the work of all my team that I'm praising. It is a good question. We w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I would think so. It could work. It depends on the length of the campaign as well. I think one of the considerations is whether that is for you, but yes, I think we were happy with the different format, and it gives different ways to go at questions and themes, for sure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a very good question. I do not have the numbers for the last election. I don't know if we have them. I wasn't there at the time, but I will look into it and I will forward any information I have. The number of people going on our website and app has grown extraordinarily in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, I think your work will be a great opportunity to hear all the views and options in front of you. It's hard to know the best thing now. With a body, is it appropriate to enforce predictability on all stakeholders, as we talked about? What kind of power and enforcement would

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It could be. There's no way to know—or maybe there is a way to know, but we don't know if it's the same people who have been watching all the debates.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You know what? I don't know for sure. I know there's a number that's been going around of about 14 million for the one debate—or maybe the two, including the French one. You should double-check that with them. I wouldn't want you to take my word for it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, that's a good question. For CPAC, it's not our role to decide on election policy. I think you'll have a chance to meet and hear from experts on democracy, and you'll have more of those people. I'm sure you will have many options in front of you. One of the things we were

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As always, we would be interested in bringing the debates to all Canadians once the rules are established and approved by all involved. We also would like to point out that CPAC works on a weekly and mostly daily basis in partnership with all media organizations, including member

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a good question. You're talking about being a host broadcaster, as with the Olympics or something like that. I think we're open to ways in which we could contribute. It depends what it is and what we're talking about. What we don't want to do is decide who's in and who's

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it is up to this committee to decide. I don't think it's CPAC's role to determine that. I can tell you one thing: as far as we are concerned, we certainly feel that it's important for citizens to have access to as much information as possible during an election. Debates

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think those are public. The numbers we had for 2015—I don't have the ones before that—were aggregated numbers of all the people broadcasting, which included CPAC and a couple of others. There were five debates. If you cumulate the reach of all of them, it's a bit under 10 milli

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I want to say how much we appreciate your invitation and the opportunity to participate in the committee’s discussions on democracy and the best way to handle leaders’ debates during federal elections. T