As we mentioned in our brief, one of the dilemmas for Radio-Canada—and in my opinion, the previous witness clearly demonstrated this—is the whole issue of competition. There is talk of making Radio-Canada function in the same way as any other broadcaster, subject to market forces.
You propose to direct them towards the documentary format. I would say that that would be very risky. Canadian society is what it is. It is interested in what is happening domestically and elsewhere in the world. It likes comedies, documentaries and a great variety of programs. In any case, I believe it is very important that our public broadcaster speak to what is going on in the country, be it locally, regionally, provincially or nationally.
I believe that if we were to reduce the scope of Radio-Canada to give it a more documentary style, we would risk losing a large part of our current audience share. In my opinion, we must on the contrary strengthen Radio-Canada and Canadian content, so that we can better speak to what Canada is today and reach out to isolated communities, whether those are anglophone communities in Quebec—we must recognize that—or francophone communities like those Mr. Angus was talking about.
I am tempted to say that in my opinion, the solutions are not necessarily easy nor unique. I think we need to assess the entire problem—and that is to some extent the role you have given yourselves—and ask ourselves what we expect of our public broadcaster.