Thank you, Mr. Fraser. We appreciate your testimony before us today. We appreciate the insight you have brought.
Today we're discussing the mandate of the CBC and where we might go with them, what recommendations we may make to our public broadcaster, and what we feel they have a responsibility to do.
As does Mr. Angus, I represent French communities in what is for the most part an English-speaking area, which also has the interesting dynamic of being rural. As can many people, they can access the French language, but unfortunately they're not speaking their language. It's the whole issue of being able to pick up the local radio station that's talking about what's happening downtown or whatever; it's speaking about things they understand, but it's the wrong language.
So there's a real paradox in this whole situation, in that it's great that the CBC has to some degree, as Mr. Angus suggested, folks speaking in their language, but if it's going to be the news from Montreal, it's really not pertinent somewhere else. That's something that maybe we can get into a discussion about at some point. I don't know how much involvement you have as a language commissioner in the discussion of what content should be available or if it's just an issue of whether the language should be available to these people.