It's a suggestion, as Ms. Friolet said, that every francophone community outside Quebec has made. Basically, it's a way of holding the CBC to account.
Yseult talked about the Official Languages Act, but we're also dealing with a Crown corporation and, of course, the Broadcasting Act. So we think this would help CBC, the community and the CRTC to consider best practices. For example, what's the best way of reflecting the francophone community's reality, and of working on a strategy to reflect this reality?
Do we really understand? We can't blame CBC for anything. We realize that the very restrictive budget cutbacks have made things increasingly difficult. For example, using a camera to cover a francophone event is a luxury, when there aren't enough cameras in the newsroom. So journalists just end up automatically covering something that the anglophones have already covered. There are too many reports which are of more interest to the anglophone community because the same camera is being used. We don't have the flexibility to make personal choices which better reflect the francophone community's reality. Being here today to cover your presence in British Columbia is the result of a choice: we're talking about a video camera which is being used for francophones and not for anglophones. Sometimes we'd like to be able to do things differently. But we have no choice, we quite simply cannot. There are all manner of constraints, and I think that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation needs to think about these issues and make strategic choices. Then it will have to abide by these choices.
Is that okay? I hope I've answered your questions.