Canadian Heritage committee  To be honest with you, it's a little bit early days and it will be a little bit clearer once we've concluded the relaunch, but that will not be until sometime later this spring.

Canadian Heritage committee  Generally speaking, the emphasis we like is on things that are distinctly our own. We have a new family show called Heartland, about unhappy girls and unhappy horses, and it's all set in Alberta. It's sort of Black Beauty.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is. Ultimately, it's really an exploration of a certain aspect of Canadian culture, whether it's Little Mosque on the Prairie, whether it's the shows we announced that are coming up very shortly. One actually is in Vancouver based on a novel by Douglas Coupland that's set in a

Canadian Heritage committee  No, this integration plan involves no job losses or changes of that variety. This is not focused on economic or efficiency issues, this is focused on service issues. The next area we'll be going to in terms of integration is further integration of news. As I was mentioning earli

Canadian Heritage committee  Not at all, that's Vancouver. Welcome to Vancouver.

Canadian Heritage committee  It will dramatically increase coverage. As Robert was saying, for historical reasons the country started more in the east, and more recently it's been growing a lot in the west. We find anomalies, though, that very important populations in the country are not being served. We ser

Canadian Heritage committee  We have not formally incorporated it, but I like it very much and that's precisely what I would like us to be able to focus on.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, to be honest with you, Sylvain actually phrases it in a way that I like very much. He talks about the responsibilities with respect to democracy and culture, and as I was mentioning earlier, what we take to be the biggest cultural challenges in English. But when you talk ab

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. This is something we've been working towards for a little while. We've been integrating different kinds of services. We integrated all of the support services, communications, human resources, and finances over the course of the last little while. For a lot of our regional

Canadian Heritage committee  It was a metaphor. The purpose of the metaphor was to try to capture what we're trying to do. The CBC English service faces a very particular set of cultural challenges. I think the biggest cultural challenge facing English Canada is our failure as a country to produce televisi

Canadian Heritage committee  As always, I agree completely with Sylvain. But I would like to add that we have established a $10 million fund that we call the Cross-cultural Fund to look at things that the two markets have in common. Sylvain and I chair that committee, which funds projects so that they can op

Canadian Heritage committee  The short answer is yes. Our overwhelming focus is on making television programming that is distinctively Canadian and that is smart and popular. Just this year alone, we broadcast a docudrama on the life of René Lévesque. We did a docudrama, to some controversy, on Tommy Dougla

Canadian Heritage committee  Maybe I'll start, in terms of the English markets. Clearly, in terms of where we're going, we completely agree with you that what we need to do is develop all of our content from the very beginning so that it fits with all the potential platforms on which it can be viewed or se

Canadian Heritage committee  I just want to add one thing. I think there are certain areas in which we actually part company from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, as I understand it, came here and said the other day that they didn't think we should be on the Inter