Absolutely, I am a journalist here in the Northwest Territories.
For a number of years, francophones have been asking for the signal, but Radio-Canada has never offered it. On the contrary, it has allowed them to obtain a rebroadcasting licence at their own expense, as I explained earlier. That shows that Radio-Canada is not interested in offering us the feed or even in us having our local station, which would be ideal for local news. We'd like to have local news. I'm thinking of the people of Hay River, Inuvik and Fort Smith, who don't even have radio in French.
Observing this lack of interest, I'm saying that we have the necessary people and infrastructures. We have a local community radio station, and we are interested in having a news program in French. I'm suggesting that Radio-Canada, if it doesn't want to pay for a journalist in Yellowknife, at least set money aside for a fund enabling the communities—perhaps others in Canada are in our situation—to use that fund to pay journalists at their community stations. We could eventually make those community stations accessible to communities such as Hay River, Fort Smith and Inuvik, which have no radio. That would be much higher quality news than when a journalist is parachuted in here from Montreal to tell us how to think. That would be news that comes from here.