Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good morning everyone.
We are going to hear from all of you in the next little while. We have quite a bit of expertise around the table. We appreciate your taking the time to provide us with guidance as part of our study.
We could no doubt spend three days discussing all the information you shared with us this morning, but we'll spend just a few minutes on it today. Committee members need to read, assimilate and understand all of it. It's not simply a matter of asking questions and wrapping things up.
Canada has long been grappling with the reality of two official languages and minority language communities. That is not where the paradigm shifted. The paradigm shift has to do with the media concentration and, above all, the drop in advertising revenue, which shows no sign of stopping. That's what I took away from your charts and graphs. Would you agree that it's a major problem?