Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I would like to reassure my colleague, there were two motions. The first one of concern to us was about a project to redefine the mandate of the CBC and would have been an initiative of the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women. The second motion, which was adopted by this committee, asked that this committee review the mandates of crown corporations, including the CBC. We will therefore see each other again shortly, and we will have still more questions to ask you.
I would like to come back to the issue of the cultural and language duality, especially with regard to television. This is something we discussed during the review of the film policy that we conducted during the previous Parliament and which dealt with market differences.
It is an unfortunate fact that our anglophone friends in Canada share a common language with people in the United States. This is probably the source of the CBC's weakness. The film industry also suffers from this, with Canadian films garnering barely 1% of the market share, whereas Quebec films control close to 18%, or even 20% of market share.
In your view, given the rumours that public funding will be removed from the CBC, will this have an impact on the Société Radio-Canada?