Buongiorno. Mio marito è italiano.
Since my husband is Italian, I know the Italian community is very important. I recognize that.
As you can guess, at our meals, our holiday meals, we have a lot of languages around the table and we go back and forth, so I recognize also the importance of having those languages represented and accessible in our media for the various communities.
I want to thank you because you gave a great overview of the contributions of the Italian community in Canada. We've had a chance to speak to members of the Punjabi press, the Ukrainian press, and ethnic media, and some of the themes that were coming out were about the fact that different ethnic communities were not having their stories well represented in mainstream media. I was wondering, from your perspective of looking at the Italian community, how well Italian-Canadian stories are being represented in mainstream media. Do you have any examples of the types of stories that perhaps mainstream media are missing? Why is it important to have an Italian voice?