Thank you.
Thank you for your presentation. I believe that today's conversation will be profitable. Of course, we've been told that we had to increase funding, contribute to the development of television drama and variety shows, and we've listened to that message. However, today I would like to discuss the need to develop a plan for new media.
We have heard from our good friends at Vidéotron that they would like to change the CTF because they think they are being hampered in their ability to take programming and have it in all the multi-platforms because of the rights issue, and they would like to have all the ancillary rights.
There is another question we also have to raise. We've seen that the entire catalogue of the BBC can be viewed at any time of the day or night because the BBC has all its rights. Wherever you are in the world, you can watch BBC.
And yet we still have a system here in Canada in which we're paying for shows that may be shown two or three times, and then they sit in a vault. Clearly, our question has to be how we can be ready for the 21st century if we haven't addressed that issue. We've been trying to get an answer here about how we get our programs into every multi-viewing platform.
Some of the broadcasters blame the producers, and some of the producers blame the broadcasters.
We don't know what the financial value of online viewing is yet. It's all speculative. But is there not a simple percentage formula that can be worked out to ensure that a production, if it's independent, can be shown forever and a day, based on a percentage basis, or shown for 10 years, or five years, so that at least we can be assured that the product is available online wherever?