Thank you for your excellent presentations, everyone. I only have five minutes, and I'm sorry I'm not going to be able to get to the issues.
I often wonder if I have the wrong TV set, because I've heard time and time again that Canadian content is this terrible basket case, this burden that the broadcasters have to carry around with this heavy chain because of their moral rectitude.
When I watch TV at night, I watch the great American news television and I'm seeing peeper porn on Thursday nights at 8 p.m., I see serial killers every night of the week, I'm seeing circus news, and then I end up watching Stroumboulopoulos, or This Hour Has 22 Minutes, or some of the great variety shows we get on our French service out of Quebec, and I keep thinking, what's the problem here?
Is it true...? We've been told they have to have all this American programming, that not only is it better, but it has to sustain all the substandard Canadian product. Do they sell Canadian shows to advertisers at a discount, and are there any Canadian shows they will put into a prime-time slot?