Right now the broadcasters have an obligation to convert all their analog infrastructure to digital so that Canadians can continue to receive their local stations over the air. This will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. They don't want to do it, especially not in the smaller communities. So what we've said is okay, don't do it in the smaller communities; we will guarantee that every community continues to have access to every single one of their local stations. We will save the broadcasters those hundreds of millions of dollars, and in return there ought not to be a fee for carriage and local programming fund increases. We would be saving the consumer the $5 or $6 a month.
On May 6th, 2009. See this statement in context.