Fair enough; we'll look at how big the bus is.
At the outset, private radio does amazing work. I look at my riding and I see the work--the charity, the outreach, Q92, Moose FM. We have CHYK-FM for the francophone community, CJKL-FM. This is not in dispute.
What is in dispute, as you say, is the issue of balance and fairness. Everyone who's come before us on any side has said that the sky is falling in. So I'm a little jaundiced about the sky falling in. I just want to get a little information here.
At the outset, I find it odd that I'm listening to some very large stations and some smaller ones warning us about the dangers of giving money to foreign multinational corporations. You sound like the New Democrats in 1965. Those four multinational corporations are EMI, Universal, Sony BMG, Warner. They are the big players in the United States and Canada. I want it on the record here, I'll be going to bat for CRIA and RIAA today, but they are a driving force in the record business.
But there is also independence; in Quebec, you're paying almost entirely to Quebec artists. If you don't want to be paying this money to foreign nationals, why don't you just play more Canadian content and it will all go to Canadians?