Yesterday, Vidéotron-Quebecor gave their latest bottom line in this standoff. The response from the minister was that she thought they had brought forth interesting observations. I'm looking at what they said. Is it because of CRTC support that they've been allowed a massive concentration of Quebec media and control? They are virtually unchallenged because of it. They say they're going to pull out of the CTF and use the money to beef up their own internal market share by going after video on demand. Yet I'm not hearing anything about commitments, again under CTF, to ensure the kind of specialty programming that is part of this--for example, children's programming and other programming.
How would you, as writers in that, feel about a situation where one giant player in the market can take funds from subscriber fees and put them into their own domestic production, without any kind of regulation or commitment? I'd like to hear from both of you on this.