Procedure and House Affairs committee  We were still involved in active conversations and still held hope that an English-language debate would happen. We saw movement on the French side where no debate was offered at the beginning of the process, and in the end we had a debate. We were convinced with the impact of th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We were still actively in conversations to try to make a debate happen with the broadcast consortium.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for offering us a chance to speak with you today. We are a collection of broadcast networks with a large and pivotal role to play in making Canadian democracy function. In coming here today, we share the same objective as this committee—to find the

Canadian Heritage committee  We've experimented with putting bureaus within the city of Toronto to try to do a better job of covering, but I take your point. I think we strive to hit the most important stories on any given day for all of Toronto, wherever they live. Could we do a better job of reflecting the

Canadian Heritage committee  We are currently in the process of resetting our Toronto programming strategy, and this has been an active discussion, particularly with regard to the television products. I think the radio piece is quite successful across the GTA. Hopefully, you'll see improvement on that front.

Canadian Heritage committee  Right.

Canadian Heritage committee  News organizations for a long time have pooled around certain events to save costs. Sometimes it's story-based and you negotiate a pool around the story. Certainly, CBC, like other broadcasters, subscribes to syndicated services to augment our ability to cover wherever we need to

Canadian Heritage committee  We also partner with newspapers, particularly around investigative projects. When CBC did the investigation into the Boy Scouts, that was with the Los Angeles Times. We've done investigations with the Toronto Star certainly, around the Panama papers, as you've heard.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is the greater Toronto area, so the 416 and the 905. That is the primary focus in terms of the local Toronto station.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was just going to finish the story. On the English side, we are investing in local, fixing some of the pressure points in terms of the cuts we have made, and expanding our service, with the first station announced in London, Ontario. We are also investing in international cove

Canadian Heritage committee  On the English side, it is $3.5 million to news, with $2 million going into local services, notwithstanding the expansion piece, which would be separate.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is anything that is local, for locals. It would be local radio, local television, and local digital that is based in the community, and also some of our music services.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly, our radio service is framed around current affairs.

Canadian Heritage committee  The television service is framed around news. The digital format will do both. It'll do breaking news in depth. It's what consumers want at 6:00. They want a news program; they don't want a long-form interview program at that time of day.