Thank you very much, Mr. Chong. It's a pleasure to see you again.
Good afternoon, Mr. O'Hearn. Good afternoon, Ms. Kopak.
You're talking about book technology. I'm going to tell you a brief anecdote.
My father is 81 years old, and I believe he knows more about technology than I do. That's simply because he has a disability and is almost blind. Consequently, through the Institut Nazareth, with which you are no doubt familiar, which is an association for the blind, he is able to obtain books on cassettes and compact discs, audio books.
So that's very good for him. He can continue engaging in one of his favourite pastimes. However, that's not my concern.
Instead my concern is for young people. Technological development raises problems everywhere. I know that, in some regions of Quebec, there is no high-speed Internet, or the system is not yet completely functional. That's the case in a number of regions. It must also be the case across Canada.
So it must be harder to establish a system such as yours. People may be less interested. What's your opinion on that point?
Technological development has to progress, and it's very slow. Efforts have been made with regard to the Internet for years. I have it at home, but the people in the neighbouring municipality don't have it, and they don't elsewhere either. So this situation is causing some problems. There are also bottlenecks.
In addition, with regard to comic books, what are you doing to digitize that? Reading a comic book as a book is quite different. How are you going to stimulate young people's interest? That's important.