Thank you, Chair.
I apologize for being the last one through the door this afternoon.
Chair, this has been something that I'm sure most members of the committee are aware of. It has received some coverage in the media. I think it's a significant issue for our public broadcaster in the sense that these 135 titles from the CBC represent a significant piece of Canada's cultural heritage. I'm very concerned about the decision to sell them off to an offshore distributor, especially when there are Canadian distributors who apparently were interested in having that contract and buying those international rights to those titles. They seem to have been completely left out of any opportunity to bid on that piece of Canada's cultural heritage.
I think it is a very important issue. There are many people who were very concerned about it. I think it would make appropriate sense for us as a committee to call representatives of the CBC, other distributors who are concerned about that, film and TV producers who are concerned about that, to come before us and look at the issue more carefully.
So that is the proposal that's before the committee.