Thank you.
I think it's very clear that a profound issue is raised by this motion. My interest is on how to make this motion work so that we get to the heart of the matter.
For example, at the GATS hearings in Geneva, Canada is a lead nation on the telecom deregulation. What it's pushing in Geneva would run contrary to numerous areas of domestic law here in Canada. These are areas where if there are changes that Canada's advocating in terms of deregulation of foreign ownership restrictions, domestic broadcast content quotas, those have profound implications for maintaining our cultural policies that have been brought forward by Parliament. So certain regulations will affect the cultural fabric of this country, as has been identified and brought in by Parliament.
My only concern is that if it's too broad, we're going to technically bury ourselves and not deal with the substantive, key areas where Parliament needs to step in. It's not very often, but at those times, we have to be there.
So I'm looking to work on this motion. I think it is a very important motion, but I think we need to make sure we're precise enough that we're not tying ourselves into a bureaucratic role but are speaking about broad policy issues that we have a right to speak on.