You have to understand that the CRTC was entirely legitimate when there were few broadcasting channels. Television was regulated. Subsequently, after the war, we encountered...Today, things are different. People have different ways of staying informed and of entertaining themselves, notably through the Internet which cannot be “regulated“ in that it is not a geographically confined system that operates in a vacuum. It operates on a global scale. Given that the CRTC was created initially to geographically regulate a specific field, its legitimacy is becoming increasingly eroded. If this can be said of the Internet, then it is even truer for other distribution platforms.
As you know, we have invested substantial sums of money to obtain exploitation licenses for the third generation wireless telephone system, which promises to be a major platform for the distribution of Canadian content, a platform that will be, I repeat, impossible to regulate.