Our concern with respect to foreign ownership is that if you cede ownership of Canadian telecommunications, communications generally, broadcasting, we will lose the opportunity to tell our own stories. We're going to be part of the American monoculture, which already sweeps over us through broadcasting and digital media production.
We have to retain ownership, please, we argue to the government. We must retain Canadian ownership of telecommunications. There's some talk about how it's okay to sell off satellites. Well, it's not okay to sell off satellites; satellites are a component of the telecommunications system.
If you start selling off satellites, the cable companies are going to want the same deal. They'll want to sell off their companies and so on and so on. Once you sell off Rogers, you're selling off broadcasting as well--you're selling out broadcasting as well.
It's all converged. There is no country that is more convergent. You heard an expert from the OECD who came to this committee and talked to you. Well, what he didn't tell you was there is no country in the world--