I know I introduced it in French in my speech. This is where I have to tread carefully, because those are matters that are in front of our commission for decision right now, but I'll try to find a way to help you in the answer.
Those are questions that we asked at this local hearing. There were a number of overarching questions. Certainly local news is important. There is a lot of money in the system. Should we be looking at changing it for local news purposes? There are some funds available for independent small market stations to support them doing local programming. A small fund does exist for that purpose.
We asked questions. Should we be expanding that fund? Should we be looking at a better redistribution of existing funds, taking some away from other areas that may be doing better and concentrating on and allowing funds to flow towards local news and information? To what end should we allow that and for what purpose? If we do go down that path, there will be important questions as to the quality of what can be funded or subsidized.
But we also—and this is where Mr. Blais' speech comes into play—have to ask ourselves the question about independence of news and information when a government entity involves itself in the production of news and information. I think that was the latter point he was making in that it is quite a struggle to, if we are to involve ourselves in news to this extent, how it should be done to ensure that proper independence and quality journalism are maintained.