Canadian Heritage committee  Do you think there is?

Canadian Heritage committee  You have members who feel that there's disparity. In your opinion, what do you feel is wrong? What are you hearing from your members is wrong with the process, and what do you think could be done to improve that?

Canadian Heritage committee  I can speak for one of the organizations in my riding that always, unfortunately, views it with skepticism. You know, they see their organization and then they see almost an identical one in Nova Scotia that received the 28% increase. They're very appreciative of the funding, of

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon to my colleagues. Thank you for coming in this afternoon and giving us your presentations. My riding is Saint John—Rothesay. It's in southern New Brunswick. It's home to the beautiful—built in 1913—Imperial Theatre, Saint John Theatre Com

Canadian Heritage committee  I wasn't asking you, Pierre.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm glad to see he's back into it. On a serious note, with regard to an application process, a funding entity, it's of utmost importance that those applying, those sending in applications and taking the time to fill out applications, feel that it's fair and consistent. I want t

Canadian Heritage committee  You can't break that down to how many—

Canadian Heritage committee  Maybe you could give us that information.

Canadian Heritage committee  Are you able to tell me how many jobs were lost after the Conservatives made the decision to cut the budget in 2012? You talked about, as the head of an organization, having to make hard decisions if you're faced with a budget cut. I've been through it, on a much smaller scale, o

Canadian Heritage committee  A thousand people were cut. Obviously that had a major impact on the delivering of news or programming.

Canadian Heritage committee  Would the cuts to the news division also affect the programming division?

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Scheer also called the organization bloated. One of his advisers promised to go for the jugular when dealing with the media. It's pretty clear to me that some people on the other side don't trust the work and the ability to fulfill the mandate independently. Do you feel Can

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have a business background and had to balance budgets and make cuts and meet payroll and all of those things. One of the comments my colleague across the room made was that the CBC said the cuts wouldn't overly affect coverage.

Canadian Heritage committee  The point is that “overly” meant that coverage would be affected, I would say. I was with the Saint John Sea Dogs and if I doubled my prices, it may not be overly, but it's.... I want to focus again on Mr. Scheer's comments or lack of comments about axing the news division of C