Thank you for your good presentation today. I'm a former member of the musicians union. I'm also very familiar with the problem of the cultural industry across Canada.
I think both presentations exposed something that has not really been examined here. We hear all the time about the difference between the Quebec market and the English Canadian market. We often hear how much better it is in Quebec.
But there's a fundamental flaw in terms of developing a cultural industry in Quebec and you both pointed to it: it's the vertical integration under one dynasty ownership. We had Monsieur Péladeau. I've met with him a number of times. He was very clear he didn't feel that as a BDU owner he should have to pay into a fund unless that fund was going for in-house production, which he owns the rights to for video on demand. So we have Quebecor that runs the newspapers, the speciality stations, and the television, and now they're sitting on the board--with no more producers sitting on the board to bother him--and the television fund has been changed so that it can now be in-house.
Madam Pradier, you spoke earlier about the problems in the 1980s with the Quebec market allowing itself to become too vertically integrated and stifling the creativity and the innovation of the artistic community. Are you afraid that these changes are going to lead Quebec artists back to being part of a stable in someone's empire?