We see this as being critical for driving innovation as Canada moves forward. We have pretty good infrastructure. We have a very well-educated population. We have a respected creative community. We are very plugged into the broadband world, but we're not doing much with it.
We see a need for stakeholders, independent producers, broadcasters, the telecommunications industry, key federal institutions, educational institutions, non-partisan players in the market coming into a big discussion about where we need to go, trying to evaluate best practices in other countries, trying to see what slice of the digital future could be the slice we could specialize in. Other countries are doing that.
That's the whole idea, and it should be a non-partisan process that could survive the prorogation of Parliament. It should be something we put a lot of effort into. It doesn't have to take a lot of time, though. It could be an ongoing process. It could have adjuncts to it that continue to function.
The idea is to get the best minds in our country looking at how we can work together to carve out the opportunities in the digital world, to access that growing pie I talked about. It's critical to the independent production community, because we see opportunity there, we see growth, we see employment. Instead of exporting jobs to the United States on foreign programming, we see opportunities to export our content and bring revenue back into our country.
It seems as obvious as the hands in front of me that the digital revolution could have the same impact as the industrial revolution, or even greater impact, and we're really not facing it together as a nation and trying to do what other countries are doing quite effectively. They're getting ahead of us on this.