As you know, we've finished a new media hearing. You have to understand that our entire broadcasting system is basically based on closed access, access via the airways, via cable, and via satellite, controlled by us, the CRTC. We could demand a certain amount of production, content, showings, exhibitions, etc. We were successful. We created a unique and very distinct system that probably had more diversity than any other national system, but it was based on us controlling the access. We are no longer there. We also no longer have the restrictions. There's only so much you can put on a spectrum.
With the Internet, we suddenly have this unregulated part that competes, and competes very successfully. On the other hand, it would be foolish to think you could control the Internet. Nobody thinks that. We certainly don't think so.
We are trying to get towards a world where the two can coexist. Right now a lot of content is produced so that broadcasting is repurposed for new media. Nobody could point to an example where people actually produce for new media and then repurpose the traditional. It's always the other way around. The two can actually be very complementary, but you have to be very careful that you don't lose your audience, which can happen very rapidly. There's also the whole issue of copyright. The rights are based on national systems and boundaries. They're not based on the Internet, because its regime doesn't fit.
I don't know whether my colleague appeared before you, but Tom Perlmutter, the president of the National Film Board of Canada, made an eloquent plea before us and others that what we really need is a new national digital strategy, because it's not only broadcasting; it's broadband, it's telecom, and it's copyright.