Thanks to everyone for your evidence. It is extremely interesting and there may be too much information for us to be able to absorb, as the librarian who appeared before you said.
I want to talk to the people from the Association des producteurs de films et de télévision. I want to talk to you about foreign ownership because you are one of the rare witnesses who have talked to us about it in such an explicit manner.
First, I want to tell you that the Quebec cultural world, to which I have spoken, is extremely troubled about a number of points. On the one hand, it is troubled because everyone increasingly sees that telecommunications and broadcasting are the same thing. We also see that telecommunications businesses, which used to have nothing to do with broadcasting, now do. That's not just because of the convergence of cable companies, but also because, among other things, smart phones have become genuine broadcasters. Not only do people want to present television directly on them, as is currently being done in France, but also—you'll no doubt be talking to me about this—they're also producing “mobisodes”, episodes for mobile telephones. That's broadcasting.
I have a nice advertisement here, that I like to show you, which shows that the person who controls access controls content and cultural content. This is an advertisement from Bell, which offers free Canadian cultural content apps. This one is in English. They provide free access to CBC Radio, but also to Disney, which is American, and Maclean's, which is a magazine. No doubt in Quebec, free app offers would be very different, but the fact nevertheless remains that we can clearly see that telecommunications and broadcasting are increasingly the same. By providing foreign ownership access to telecommunications businesses, it's as though we were giving it to broadcasting businesses, a sector where there is currently no regulation.
First, it seems clear that you are opposed to foreign ownership of telecommunications businesses, aren't you? Second, even if there were no foreign ownership issues, don't you think we would have to have this public debate? Third, do you agree with the CRTC, which wants to merge the Broadcasting and Telecommunications acts?