Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to go back to the issue around the cuts made in the mid-1990s that you speak about and the impact they have had for the francophone community throughout Canada, and in particular the west and the north.
We recently had a hearing in Yellowknife, and I represent a region in Manitoba that includes all of northern Manitoba. Certainly the statement has been made very clearly throughout the north--and in particular, I'm sure, in the west as well--that there is no local French input, that the programming is based in Montreal, and people feel, as you mentioned, that their local issues are not being represented. Could you speak a bit more on how those cuts have affected that local voice and perhaps what kind of recommendations you have specifically for that?