Thank you. To clarify, because I am feeling that we are starting to walk the clock down here, the issue that was brought before us was the crisis precipitated by Shaw and Vidéotron. At that time, when we stepped in, there was no discussion about our looking at the governance structure of the CTF, the role of the CTF, Telefilm, and so on. There are a lot of aspects to this file, but we focused on the crisis that was at hand.
So you will see out of these recommendations that they're strictly focused on the evidence we heard. There are no recommendations on changing the governance structure. Mr. Shaw raised questions about who sat around the board. I don't feel myself in any position to make recommendations on that, because we didn't hear enough evidence. If at the end of the day the CRTC comes forward with recommendations on changing the governance structure and the composition of the table, well, they will have perhaps a greater degree of expertise if they were choosing to study that. What we studied was the issue of the suspension of payments and what happened, and how that should not happen again. What we studied was the issue of whether Vidéotron or Shaw can change the funding arrangement so that they might want to move their funding elsewhere. We had heard clearly that this was problematic, so for the CTF, as it stands now, this is coming forward as a recommendation.
Then the final area of recommendations is the role of a closed-door process at the CRTC, which I think is highly unusual. I don't feel that it's my job to condemn the CRTC for that, but to remind—and this is in the recommendation—that the CTF remains a child of the heritage department and so it has to somehow come back for public hearings, and we want to make sure that happens.
So that's strictly the focus of the recommendations. There's no vacuum here. This is based on the exact issues that we were faced with, and so now it is incumbent upon us to come forward with this.
So I would suggest we look at the recommendations. We have all studied, we have all listened to the evidence, and we are in a position to decide whether these recommendations are what the committee wants or what the majority of the committee would like to come forward with.