Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Blais, if the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage had done a study in which consumers had said that they had had more than enough of paying too much for cable, they would have been happy to know that the previous Conservative government had taken note of their complaints and included in its last throne speech a commitment to a basic package. That is how the demand was addressed and that is how the government responded to it.
We are the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. It is not our role to speak on behalf of consumers; our mandate is rather to discuss culture and Canadian heritage.
With that in mind, we have heard representations from local media who told us that things no longer made any sense, that their backs were against the wall, that the system is deficient, and that something had to be done.
If television producers came to the committee to tell us that Canadian content on Netflix is minimal—and we can see that—they too would ask us to do something.
So, how do you perceive the government's intent to modernize a law you have been managing for 25 years, a law that goes back to 1991? What is your perception of what the population is asking the government to do?