Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would be proud to move it.
I brought this forward because we are now less than a year to the deadline for the digital transition. There will be major changeover in terms of how Canadians are going to view this. Even if we decide to hold off the digital transition, it has major impacts, especially in rural regions. Is CBC ready? Is private television ready?
I think it's something we need to be looking at. It has been raised a number of times over the last two years while we've been doing various studies: where are we going to be with the digital transition?
We can look at the United States. They had a big rollout in advance of the transition. It would be good to hear from representatives of broadcast and also representatives from various stakeholders or people who are concerned with the broadcasting industry to make sure when the signal happens, we're not going to be leaving anybody in the dark.