Canadian Heritage committee  Advertising would be phased out over five years. The first step would be to withdraw advertising from news programming.

Canadian Heritage committee  First, we are redefining and confirming the key role a media organization plays. It's important to understand that we're talking about media organizations here. In order for a public broadcaster like CBC/Radio-Canada to be able to take on and fulfill its mandate properly, its fun

Canadian Heritage committee  I would add that everything is digital. Not 100% yet, but it is going to be. Looking into the future, our first proposal is to re-christen the CRTC, to broaden its mandate to include all digital platforms, of course, because its authority is redefined. We want to modify its role

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, when we received our mandate, we had to take it or leave it. However, it took us one or two months to properly grasp the mandate and to break it down so that we could hold our public consultations. As you say, there are really a lot of things, but we did not get que

Canadian Heritage committee  In the introduction to the report, which I invite you to read again, linguistic duality is identified, and the principle is mentioned throughout the chapter. We had six very specific questions on CBC/Radio-Canada. Our recommendations particularly stress the national broadcaster's

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your question. It really goes to the heart of our work. The mandate we were given was huge. It includes 31 questions on a number of very varied issues from telecommunications to broadcasting, as you so rightly said. We were given that mandate at a time when we are

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, everyone. We focused on four major issues. They are: reducing obstacles to access to advanced telecommunications networks for all Canadians; the best ways to support the creation, production and discoverability of Canadian content; the best way to protect privacy