Former broadcasters on Parliament Hill, Mr. Waugh, Madam Chair, is an awful thing. Next they'll be allowing the lawyers and teachers into politics as well.
I am very interested in the issue of diversity, and I just want to explore that.
As the Broadcasting Act says, the system is to:
serve the needs and interests, and reflect the circumstances and aspirations, of Canadian[s]...including equal rights, the linguistic duality and multicultural and multiracial nature of Canadian society and...aboriginal peoples....
We're going through a tremendous amount of, as the act says, “scientific and technological change”. I appreciate the fact that, Ms. Pratt, when you're looking at mergers and acquisitions, you're looking at them purely from a competitive point of view. I want to know, from any of you, where exactly the guardianship of diversity falls. Who polices that? Who gauges that? Who measures that?
I'm looking at nobody in particular, because I don't know the answer.