Industry committee  Certainly, thank you. There's no question that in our industry, film and television, Hollywood or the United States industry is imperialistic. I was told that across the table, that Americans invented filmmaking, and I had to correct the gentleman and said, “No, I'm sorry, it wa

Industry committee  I find this a very good way to get my adrenalin going. Monsieur Arthur, merci. That's a very fine question to challenge me with. As an organization of performers, we do not expect the government to be a big brother. We would not want that. We are talking about our culture. We'

Industry committee  It's a good challenge. I won't ramble on. Your points are very good. First of all, I'm not in favour of censorship and telling the public what they should or shouldn't watch. I believe the public should watch what they want to watch to be entertained. I believe entertainment is

Industry committee  Certainly a program that fails to get an audience shouldn't be on air. There's no requirement to air or to show a film that an audience isn't coming to. But if money is consistently available from advertising revenue both for TV and for feature movie.... ACTRA says 7% of advertis

Industry committee  They have not declared that yet.

Industry committee  Thank you. I believe CanWest Global will be listening very carefully to the CRTC's rules. It's a very important multi-billion-dollar decision that's happening right now. We are continuing to advocate that there needs to be a minimum of content in prime time. Global and CTV, th

Industry committee  Yes, income averaging. I'm a performer, I'm proud to say, and I've had many part-time jobs not being a performer. Most performers, when they have to work, do other self-employed jobs. Income averaging is also something that's familiar in Quebec; it would be as a self-employed p

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  Well, you have a new fan in me, because that's exactly what we're trying to do. First of all, we're Canadian performers, we're Canadian artists, and we care about Canadian culture and Canadian stories and Canadian identity. We like to work on that material. So absolutely, yes.

Industry committee  Excellent. Thank you. I'm happy to answer both these, in reverse order if I could. What Quebec is doing is absolutely what we need to do, to be proud of our unique identity. English Canada has one, and we need to work at building it. The Quebec industry has a committed televisio

Industry committee  The member is absolutely correct on both points. First of all, attention is being paid to pirating. It's a very deep concern of our members, and we have been quite supportive since the announcement was made about legislation. I was in the Centre Block for that and answered media

Industry committee  Yes, I certainly am prepared to talk to members of Parliament on the heritage committee, but I'm sorry, Mr. McTeague, I didn't quite get.... Were you referring to commercial production, television commercial production--

Industry committee  --and the lack of protection for Canadian content of that?

Industry committee  We're aware of it, yes. We're actually in negotiations with the Association of Canadian Advertisers for our new collective agreement. They're obviously very concerned about it. What you're talking about is pirate advertising, basically, and advertising that's done through new m

Industry committee  Thank you.