Thank you.
Madam Chair, I have a couple of questions that I was talking about earlier. Maybe I'll just table them with you. I'd like to read a couple of them just so that our colleagues know what we're asking and they can get back to us later.
First, what internal and third party polling has the department undertaken to determine the level of access Canadians have to local and regional media—some of the basis that you found in the report? What medium is used to access local and regional media? Are Canadians satisfied with the content of their local and regional media? What's the work you've done there?
As well, if you added up all of the tax dollars used to fund the programs that support regional and local through Canadian Heritage on a yearly basis, excluding the CBC, what would that amount be? Could the dollars be broken down by program and then by provinces, so that we could have a regional view of it as well? How does the department audit and measure the success of the funding it gives to local and regional media, excluding the CBC? What metrics does the department use, and what are the expected outcomes?