As an introduction to the motion, I would simply like to tell you that last year the members of this committee agreed on three issues relating to community television. We agreed that community television should be entitled to all of the grant programs of the department of Canadian Heritage, that they should be included in cable companies' basic programming and that the CRTC should relax the restrictions on local advertisements on community television. That is laid out in our report entitled “Issues and challenges related to local television“, that we adopted in June 2009.
I am coming back to it as a follow-up to the motion passed unanimously at the National Assembly. As I stated earlier, in the part that says “played by independent community television“, I would add the word “Quebec's“ after the words “independent community television“, to make it more precise.