I think journalists have done themselves a great disservice. I get a bit upset with them, but I won't completely impinge their reputations; a large part of it has to be the organizations they write for.
We just had the Supreme Court justice come out and say that litigation is far too expensive in Canada. But when it gets to the point that media with deep pockets are afraid to challenge the government, then we're in deep trouble, aren't we. The best thing that happened in the Homolka case was the fact that it was put on the Internet and people got outraged by it; otherwise she would have gotten off scott-free...or maybe not scott-free, but she certainly wouldn't have gotten the sentence she did.
Only a fool would sit here and say this is what it's going to be, but if you look at the blogs, you see a great many articulate people out there. The use of digital cameras--and I hate them, but I have adjusted to the new technology--means that anybody in Wekweti can show, okay, we're going out on a moose hunt, this is how we live. You can read in the Toronto Star about the conditions up in northern Ontario on the reserves, but if they had access to the Internet, we could see the way they live. It would be far more immediate than the Globe and Mail going up once every ten years.