Canadian Heritage committee  I think you're right, but I think in terms of feature films it's still the case that the big experience runs off larger screens.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say to them two things. First of all, if this is a tax, you're already paying it, and paying it for TSN and for Showcase and for everything else. So I don't think it breaks any new ground. I think if they were to follow our proposal, what would happen is that they would

Canadian Heritage committee  I also used to run Telefilm, so I know a little bit about the feature film business. What you say is quite right, that there is a big problem about the distribution of feature films in Canada. That's absolutely true, particularly in English Canada. In French Canada the situation

Canadian Heritage committee  I know. I'm going to come to that. So what we've said is that we would be very happy to actually promote the theatrical release of feature films, but the way it would have to work is that it would go to the movie house first, go to DVD, and then we have to get the film on the sa

Canadian Heritage committee  I used to also be in the cable business and in the satellite TV business. I think what Sylvain gave you by way of an account of the situation with respect to the Quebec marketplace and the centrality of conventional broadcasters is absolutely accurate, and he puts it very nicely

Canadian Heritage committee  No. They pay to U.S. cable channels. So for example, the Arts and Entertainment Channel would be paid a fee by the cable companies for carriage; so too the Golf Channel, or Speedvision, the racing car channel. They would all be paid fees by the Canadian cable companies.

Canadian Heritage committee  We don't actually do the audience surveys. BBM does the audience surveys, and we obviously study the results very carefully, but so far we have not seen erosion.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we have to sometimes just remember what the CBC Radio Orchestra actually was. The CBC Radio Orchestra is not an orchestra like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, where we have employed musicians, full-time. That's not what it is. It's different kinds of players who get tog

Canadian Heritage committee  Can I? On Radio 2, we have not yet seen any erosion of audience. I don't expect we will see any erosion of audience.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, not yet, and—

Canadian Heritage committee  We have not seen erosion of Radio 2. And in fact we will not really have a clear sense of what's going on until probably the beginning of next year, because what we're going to do is re-launch a lot of the shows come this September, and then we're going to promote the new Radio 2

Canadian Heritage committee  The big changes are not even starting until September.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we've done some small changes over the course of the last little while.

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, to the issue of how we are doing more generally with respect to our core audience, English services this year, and in the last results in terms of audiences, have the highest share for Radio One that they've ever had—

Canadian Heritage committee  Radio One and 2 combined--I just have to say this: television had the best share it's had in many years. For the first time it beat Global. Now—