Canadian Heritage committee  I'm just talking about commissioning and developing. We don't produce most of our content in-house any more, so most of it is commissioned from independents. Some of our children's is, and some of our interstitial children's is. We would absolutely be open to partnering with Ne

Canadian Heritage committee  I am a lesbian, so I'm always a supporter of more LGBQ and transgender stories, and we're not shying away from that. I think increasingly we want to see shows in which the transgender aspect is not the most important thing about the character. It's just a part of everybody's da

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. For the archival material, unfortunately the answer is “it depends”. We don't own the rights to all of the archival material. We generally secure rights, if it's funded by CMF, for six or seven years, and then that's all the rights we have. For a show like Kids in the Hal

Canadian Heritage committee  We do that when we feel that it will find an audience. We do that. We have re-issued Kids in the Hall on our comedy portal, for example.

Canadian Heritage committee  The challenge with children's programming, as you know, is that there are so many channels dedicated to cartoons: Teletoon, Disney—

Canadian Heritage committee  Radio listening around the world is down. We are up.

Canadian Heritage committee  We're up.

Canadian Heritage committee  Our sports strategy is very much to focus on amateur and elite performance sports. Women's hockey is something that I'm a fan of. I'd love to see more women's hockey. We do have contractual arrangements with Rogers for Saturday nights until June of 2019. That would be the first

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, universally. It's not up and running yet, but we have met with community leaders in London to talk about what kind of service they want. It will have its own radio, as well as a digital bureau. We did talk about location so that we could ensure we were in a location that wou

Canadian Heritage committee  It has been universally positive. This is a city that has wanted service for years and has felt underserved by the public broadcaster. It was, in fact, the next city on the list of local service extensions when we developed a plan to invest more in local.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Hubert. I don't think you can overstate the seriousness of the competition presented by the Netflixes, the Amazon Primes, the Hulus. There were 400 new hours of English-language drama created in the last year, and 50% of it will fail. It's a level of investment that is

Canadian Heritage committee  Where I want to go is around the challenge that's presented by the global technology companies, and I would argue that in the form of Facebook and Google in particular, they are primarily technology companies and not media companies. These are both companies we partner with to di

Canadian Heritage committee  We do pay fees to them. We have CBC Facebook pages, and we participate in Facebook Live. They are one of the largest distributors of content, and Canadians use them in the millions. When we want to share our content, Facebook is one of the ways that we do it.

Canadian Heritage committee  The BBC is also funded at nine times our level. What the BBC can undertake versus what we can undertake, even with an injection, is very, very different. The CBC has always been an opinion. I would argue that Cross Country Checkup is an opinion show. I would argue that all of ou

Canadian Heritage committee  I would agree.