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Official Languages committee There's something that is important here. There was Seducing Dr. Louis, The Barbarian Invasions, and a number of others. What I was struck by is that we had great success. We accessed 25% of the francophone market with these films when I was at Telefilm Canada and—
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee When we put out films with English subtitles, including the great Denys Arcand film which won the foreign language film Oscar, anglophones did not go see it. That is a problem—
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee You asked me on what basis we made our decision, whether it was on marketing studies—
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee —or our judgment.
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee I must say that it is based on our judgment and our experience.
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee It is not a—
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee I totally reject Mr. Coderre's comments. I am obviously not anti-francophone or against French culture in Canada. That is not true. As I've said, I have made major efforts to bridge these two cultures. For my part, I've stated it and I'll repeat it, this is a major goal for the
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee We are under-funded. If you compare CBC and Radio-Canada to other public broadcasters throughout the world, aside from PBS, we receive the least funding. We know that Americans do not have the same cultural problems we have. The issue of francophones and anglophones is moot. If y
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee I understand, but increased funding would certainly make decisions easier. That is obvious.
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee We did.
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee My experience. As you know, I financed many French-language films when I was at Telefilm Canada and we had huge blockbusters. I mentioned some of these films to you this morning.
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee Thank you for your comments. You may be surprised to hear about one aspect of CBC funding. As I told Mr. Lebel earlier, we did not take this decision for financial reasons, but at the end of the day we have very difficult financial challenges to deal with. It is true that English
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg
Official Languages committee It wasn't for financial reasons.
April 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Stursberg