These ideas come from consultations, or from a focus group called musiQCnumériQC. This group began discussions in 2010, when Christine St-Pierre, who was Quebec's Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women at the time, launched a major conversation on the future of culture and journalism in the digital age.
In that context, we reflected on all kinds of solutions. One of them was that the State should be much more generous and should increase grants and subsidies to creators, who are much more generous to the public domain. That was one of the solutions proposed by the focus group musiQCnumériQC.
Those recommendations have been submitted. I am not a lobbyist and I do not knock on doors asking politicians to listen to me. The politicians invite me. But the same idea was submitted to the cabinet that Minister St-Pierre was part of and to the other cabinets that have followed.
It is one idea. Clearly, you have never heard of it.
My comments are ephemeral. My two colleagues in attendance are proposing to impose requirements on Internet service providers. That's fine by me. I am not opposed to Internet service providers contributing to the culture they carry.
However—and all my colleagues and the politicians around the table today can testify to this—in the days of the government preceding the Liberals, it was very difficult to hold Internet service providers responsible for the culture they were carrying. They were even relieved of responsibility by a copyright act that was reviewed by the Conservative government of the time. I am telling you this because you are a Conservative. I imagine you recall something along those lines.
In that context…