Thank you Mr. Chair, and thank you to the minister for your information.
You made a very critical announcement this morning that you are going to ensure that everyone plays by the rules and that monthly payments would be restored immediately.
You gave a quote by one of the stakeholders, who said we've been on tenterhooks. Certainly the industry has felt that they are on tenterhooks. In fact, we have been repeatedly asking for this commitment to ensure that these monthly payments are returned.
Definitely we've heard from stakeholders that Canadian television industry production has been put in jeopardy, and currently we see that. We've heard from one stakeholder that an unknown number of stakeholders have been calling on the government to provide an interim loan to ensure production continues. As you mentioned, there are key benchmarks in production in Canada. They're on very tight schedules and very tight budgets. How will the minister ensure that the production industry is not destabilized by what has been happening recently with the Canadian Television Fund?