Thank you, François.
I will introduce myself. I am Benoit Chartier, president and editor of DBC Communications.
I am appearing today in a dual capacity, as I am also president of Hebdos Québec, a group of independent Quebec editors.
I want to start by telling you about DBC Communications. It is a publishing group that publishes three newspapers and a monthly agricultural journal. One of DBC Communications' famous newspapers is Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe, which is the oldest French newspaper in America. It is in its 164th year of existence. DBC Communications is a publishing group with about 100 employees and 20 journalists, and we are very engaged in our community in the Saint-Hyacinthe region.
I would now like to talk to you about Hebdos Québec, which is a group of independent editors, like myself. There are about 20 of us, representing some 30 newspapers. We are all independent. We do not belong to any newspaper chain. We publish 1 million copies a week. We have 1.5 million readers per week and 800,000 unique visitors a month on our websites. The advertizing revenue is estimated to be $52 million. We have 400 employees, of whom 111 are journalists and 33 are photographers.
Basically, in Quebec, TC and Hebdos Québec have ties to 99.9% of the province's weekly newspapers.
I yield the floor again to Mr. Olivier.