Canadian Heritage committee  Today is actually my second anniversary working at the CBC. Some of these decisions go back a little before my time. To be honest with you, I agree with you. I think the only way to look intelligently at local offers is to look at them in terms of their local markets and local c

Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, there hadn't been a lot of them bought already, so we sent them a note. Then we put a further freeze on all sales of the DVD. One of the important things to bear in mind is that this is not the CBC's property, but belongs to the independent producer who made it; recen

Canadian Heritage committee  After the film was first aired we received representations from a lot of people, not just the Gardiner family, that the portrayal of James Gardiner in Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story was unfair. This was not really an issue of legal liability; it was really to your point t

Canadian Heritage committee  It may be of interest to people to track back through what the controversy over The One was about, since I think sometimes it was a little bit misunderstood. The One is a show that in French Canada was known as Star Academy, with big success in French Canada, having that on our

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Jane. It's a pleasure to be here. At CBC television we're driven by a very simple focus: to make programming that better connects with Canadians, programming that matters to them and that they want to make a part of their daily lives. English Canada is the only pla