Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we do have, actually. It think this is footnoted in our presentation. We notice that there is a slight change. I believe it's 11.8 hours of online viewing, only 1.3 hours of which is devoted to television, and we believe that's because there may be less French content offere

Canadian Heritage committee  In conclusion, we now have a Canadian broadcasting system that only partially supports the goals of the Broadcasting Act, because it has been broken into regulated and unregulated systems. We encourage the government and this committee to think of the Canadian broadcasting system

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's possible, and yes, it's required. The ISPs are operating in an unregulated environment, yet they're giving us the same programming. You know what? The future is here. I'm sure we're all watching the commercials: Netflix is offering us content for $8.99. We're here,

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, you can't regulate Netflix because it's a foreign company. The CRTC only has jurisdiction over Canadians. Our own Internet service providers are providing content online, but they're not regulated to support Canadian content, nor are they required to promote it or

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, members of the heritage committee. My name is Maureen Parker, and I'm the executive director of the Writers Guild of Canada. Also with me today is my colleague Kelly Lynne Ashton, WGC director of policy. Thank you for inviting us. The Writers Guild of Canada is

Canadian Heritage committee  Your question is twofold. It wouldn't necessarily be a levy on everyone. We're able to determine that those people who are using higher speeds and have greater broadband access are downloading files. We can see that's currently infringing on copyright, and artists are not compens

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  We're actually talking about an ISP levy with respect to the CRTC's jurisdiction. We're talking about imposing a levy, as well, in terms of distribution to compensate creators for things like illegal file-sharing. It's kind of a two-part solution. Kelly Lynne, would you like to.

Canadian Heritage committee  We share an idea with the Songwriters Association. We're probably not the same in terms of an amount or a figure. And again, their levy was only going to cover music. We're looking at a more comprehensive idea that will cover audio-visual completely. We haven't put a figure on it

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a similar principle in terms of compensation for artists for uses that are not permitted under the Copyright Act. First we need to amend the Copyright Act to allow those permitted uses. Then we need to figure out a way to compensate artists. A collective licensing regime is

Canadian Heritage committee  I understand your concern. As Kelly Lynne said, however, 99% of viewing is still television content. We're quoting a Nielsen study that came out last week. That's fact. Let me clarify that.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's the point I'm trying to make. It's called “television content”, but we consume it very differently now. You store it on your PVR, your personal video recorder, you may stream it to your laptop, you watch it in different forms, but it's still television content because that

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, it's not. What you said was very true, Charlie. We did say that, I believe, as well. Our members want their works to be exploited in all these various forms. We're not trying to roll back the clock. We know that this is the future and we're excited about that, because it gi