Good morning, Ms. Oda, Ms. LaRoque and Ms. Cliff. Thank for coming today to deal with a dying fund.
I am going to talk about the provisions of the act. In accordance with Section 7, the Governor in Council may issue to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission directions of general application on broad policy matters with respect to any of the objectives of the broadcasting policy set out in the act.
This is what your colleague Maxime Bernier did on December 14, 2006 when he issued policy directions asking the CRTC to rely as much as possible on market forces and, when required, to regulate so as to exert as little influence as possible on market forces.
When I read this information, which was sent by your colleague, I was dismayed and I thought that was probably what was going to happen next year in the area of broadcasting. Beyond the crisis that we are presently discussing, isn’t the government getting ready to deregulate broadcasting, in view of your wait-and-see attitude in the CTF file?