Thank you, Mr. Chairman
I wanted to revisit a matter that this committee has already dealt with, concerning our request for a response from the government on the re-tabling of the Lincoln report. At the time, I did hear comments from the parliamentary secretary as to whether that was advisable or not. I understand his comments perhaps a little better now, but I suspect he had information at that time that we didn't have, or certainly I didn't have, the fact that over the weekend two initiatives have been launched vis-à-vis the television industry in Canada: one by the minister on Sunday in Banff, asking for the CRTC to look into the impact of technology and to report back by mid-December, and the other one by the CRTC itself in terms of the entire industry, much along the lines of what the CRTC is currently doing in regard to radio.
Given that these two initiatives have now been launched, subsequent to our request for a government response, I'd just say that I was not insensitive to Mr. Abbott's comments when we were dealing with this matter. I'm quite prepared to put forward a notice of motion to be dealt with next Tuesday if necessary, but I'm wondering whether it would not be advisable for this committee at this time to suspend the request for a response from the government and wait until these two initiatives have been completed.