Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to ask you a question, Mr. Perreault. In fact, I have several questions, but I won't be able to ask them all. I am aware of your vast expertise in broadcasting, and I would like to ask you a series of questions, including some on regulating the Internet. If we get through the comments in your brief, we can come back to that.
In the meantime, I want to talk about your brief, especially paragraphs 12, 13 and 14. I find them very interesting, because in my view, thanks to your experience, you have realistically identified the huge constraints linked to vertical integration. In paragraph 12, you ask, among other things, how “is a small programmer going to constantly complain against the people they need to [...] price [...] their services?” You are absolutely right.
I see something in your brief that no one else has pointed out: specialty channels do not have access to their customers. You do not know who they are. The BDU knows who your customers are, but they do not share that information. You cannot contact them directly. In terms of marketing, that must be a major handicap.
In paragraph 14, you mention the “risk that vertical integration poses to the diversity of voices” and you suggest that “legislative frameworks” be developed. I would like you to explain what kind of legislative framework should be developed to help specialty channels. You say that you have not had a problem, but you are in a highly specialized market—weather—and you do things that are impossible to imitate technologically speaking so I don't see how BDU could push you aside and set up its own weather service.