Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not too sure who you're speaking to. I will start by saying that my union has a policy of advocating for issues within the media--media worker issues, for lack of a better word. They are issues that affect this industry. We do advocate for those things. Marc, would you like

Canadian Heritage committee  Very quickly. Our union called for having the fee-for-carriage and having that money specifically allocated for local news. The LPIF, the local program improvement fund, was a little bit of an offshoot of that recommendation. The current plan is for the LPIF to be funded out of c

Canadian Heritage committee  Excuse me.

Canadian Heritage committee  My answer to your question is this. Just hang on, we can switch over to him. There's a problem right now, and let's get away from partisan politics.

Canadian Heritage committee  The problem is the relationship with the government of the day, and that's any day. That means the government of today, of ten years ago, or of twenty years ago and the CBC. That is the problem. Your committee identified this last year. We need a seven-year contract between the g

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll start with this. Look, I didn't answer the last question, and what I have been saying--

Canadian Heritage committee  My understanding is that the CBC was informed last week or the week before. The staff at the CBC were informed last week, and it should be clear that it hasn't been singled out. A lot of government departments are subject to this review. At the same time, it's strange to us tha

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, to put $50 million in perspective, you're looking at a quarter of the entire budget of English radio. You're looking at a third of the budget of French radio. I mean, $50 million is a lot of money at the CBC. Let's say that the strategic review goes through and the

Canadian Heritage committee  Listen, I'll answer further questions about this later on.

Canadian Heritage committee  The cities that Marc-Philippe just mentioned are among the smaller cities in the country that have suffered most from cuts to their local media. Hamilton is another place that doesn't enjoy local CBC service and it's poised to lose its only local TV station, CHCH, owned by CanWes

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for inviting us to appear before you today. My name is Lise Lareau and I'm the national president of the Canadian Media Guild. We represent workers at the CBC, at CanWest, and other media employers across the country. With me is Marc-Philippe Laurin. He is the presiden

Canadian Heritage committee  You may want to ask that question before your review wraps up, because this has all transpired while you've been doing your review. Going to your governance question, we had appealed to the board to take one last look at this decision. My understanding is they spent two minutes

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll start with this. When you have your tour at CBC this afternoon, I do hope you ask to see the design area. That is the area where there are costumes and props and where these massive sets are located. It's all shutting down May 31, but until you actually see it with your ow

Canadian Heritage committee  Where do I begin? I don't want to be negative about the people serving in the positions. With that in mind, I would say the lockout was probably the best example, the most black and white example. To this day, it was never clear who was going to end that lockout. Was it Canadian

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.