Canadian Heritage committee  What we had proposed to the CRTC was that, given the dynamic around the fee for carriage and all of the other issues being put forward, the new basic package be strictly a Canadian package, available at a lower rate, that could also possibly be used to provide subscriber fees not

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I will. I will get it to the chair.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for this opportunity to be here. I am Jean LaRose, the Chief Executive Officer of APTN. This year marks APTN's 10th anniversary. Ten years ago, it was difficult to believe that a national aboriginal network could offer 10 hours per day of live Olympic programming acros

Canadian Heritage committee  The 96 transmitters across the north are basically APTN's network of transmitters, but some are co-located with CBC. On some of the towers there's both an APTN and a CBC transmitter from the same tower. I think there are about 30 of those that are co-locations. These towers are n

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not talking about becoming an affiliate or anything of that nature. What I'm looking at is that they have access to 37% of the Canadian Television Fund. We did the J.J. Harper story together about three or four years ago. There are many other stories of that nature that APTN

Canadian Heritage committee  No. The envelope that's available to the francophones outside Quebec is roughly $8 million to $10 million a year. APTN has access to what's called the Aboriginal Language Initiative, which is about $2.9 million. We currently support about 69 aboriginal producers with an envelope

Canadian Heritage committee  No, that envelope is specific to them. Our envelope is what's called the ALI. It's a very small envelope that's administered by Telefilm, in this case.

Canadian Heritage committee  Not to my knowledge, no.

Canadian Heritage committee  Your question has hit the nail on the head, in fact. When Canadian Heritage established the NNBAP program, its initial intention was to have the CBC, as the public broadcaster, pick up some of the programming that was done by the communication societies in the north and broadcast

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, in northern Canada. Some were just below “north of 60”, but most of them were above 60 degrees north. Also, as you mentioned quite rightly, the act does not refer to the CBC as having a mandate for aboriginal peoples. It only refers to aboriginal peoples as having an opportu

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I believe that CBC/Radio-Canada has a mandate as a public broadcaster to reflect the Canadian reality, at the regional level, among other things, but also with regard to the various populations of Canada. APTN is the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. However, CBC/Radio-

Canadian Heritage committee  Merci. I just want to mention, before I start, that for the sake of brevity and the committee's timetable, I will depart from my prepared text. You've been given a copy of my presentation. I've shortened it to allow for a longer Q and A session. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and