Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the three of you for appearing before us today, and thank you also for a written copy of your remarks, because it's significantly easier for us to go back and check right here as to what you've said.
In reviewing your comments, I notice that you're undertaking at least five significant reviews and/or studies, everything from commercial radio policy, conventional commercial television, the general review that you're doing as to the broadcasting environment in Canada, and you're also dealing with the pay and specialty TV services and also broadcast distribution undertakings. These are all issues you're going to be grappling with. You've bitten off quite a chunk there. Once you receive the results of those and you've been able to distill the challenges facing the industry, how will you go about making policy in these various areas?
My concern is this. The CRTC, to a degree, is at arm's length from the minister and is expected by some in our country to take a significant role in developing policy and implementing it. There are others who see the role of the CRTC as being more of an implementer of policy and that ultimately the final direction would be delivered by the minister or the minister's office.
What do you see CRTC's role being, as you start to complete these studies and reviews?