Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Hardacre, I'm pleased to see you because you accurately state the problem of English-language television, Canadian television. If a representative of the Union des artistes, which has exactly the same mandate as you in Quebec, were in your seat, he wouldn't be emphasizing the same problems in the same places.
In Quebec, the problem is not competition from Hollywood. We have excellent Quebec productions with excellent ratings. We don't have the same problems. What I like in your presentation is that it accurately states the problem with Canadian broadcasting, which is competition from Hollywood.
Can the situation change? Can your problem really be solved? We sense that it's a wheel that's turning. The fewer Canadian productions there are, the less the television networks want to broadcast them. Consequently, artists make less money and there are fewer artists. When anglophone artists succeed, they want to go to the United States because the language is the same. That's one of your problems. Can that wheel be stopped? Could the problem be solved through regulation, by government investment or by increasing the awareness of broadcasters, which currently look more like people who want to do business than people who, generally speaking, have a licence and a privilege to produce television for the public?