Canadian Heritage committee  Advertising revenue is in decline for all media, both for broadcasters and newspapers. However, for the public broadcaster, this is of special importance. To provide something different in order to stand out from private broadcasters, it must have a specialization, as Mr. Arnold

Canadian Heritage committee  Sorry. I apologize.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a matter of public record. It's all in the lobby registry. We don't need to, but we do.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. We can.

Canadian Heritage committee  Some parties have not taken a position. You are right, the leader of the NDP announced twice, last August and again a few weeks ago, that he supported a series of policies, including closing the tax gap in section 19 of the Income Tax Act. So there is a degree of support on the N

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't explain why exactly. However, I can say that the signs are promising. For example, the Government of Quebec, which tends to be middle-of-the-road, has passed legislation to collect sales tax from foreign digital service providers, such as Netflix. Even here, at home, we h

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you have a Gmail account?

Canadian Heritage committee  Did you ever sign on a dotted line to say, Google can read all of my email in order to sell me stuff more efficiently?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I would challenge you to read the terms of agreement of all of these services and see whether you're still alive by the end. It's an incredibly long process that I think people are not.... We cannot reasonably expect people to agree to those things. The other thing is that

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  When representatives of countries containing 400 million people ask a very important company to explain itself and its impact on democracy and that company decides not to appear, I think that speaks volumes for their respect for the people's will.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say they can, and more than that, they have to; they must. Entertainment programming and news programming are not like other industries. They shape our sense of what's possible. They teach us who to empathize with. They help inform our ideal of what the normal society loo

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's important for us to be precise when we use terms like “liberalize” and “deliberalize”. We're not talking about becoming more like the Liberal Party or less. I know that's not your sense.