As far as Longueuil and the North Shore/South Shore initiative is concerned, we feel that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not active or present enough in these heavily populated regions. Not only do we need journalists, we need something else as well. Increasingly, residents of the communities on the South Shore live their cultural, economic and social life on the South Shore. They have transportation problems that other people do not have. From a sociodemographic standpoint, the region is home to many young families.
We feel that we need to put in place services that are geared to these residents, and to reflect the local and regional politics of these two major population centres, namely the North Shore and the South Shore. We are looking into ways of doing just that. We will achieve this objective largely because of digital technology. Our focus is not merely on news stories, but on the social, cultural and political life of the residents of these regions.