We have a history in Canada of protecting ourselves, whether it's through the regulatory system for broadcast or through trade, because we have that big country to the south of us—America. We've had to be very cautious about protecting Canadian content.
We believe that we need to keep the protections as they exist today for Canadian content and Canadian broadcasters. We don't want to see them watered down. We see the system as not a perfect system. We're concerned about change. We welcome the change on the one hand, because we believe we need to have the change and need to cover the OTT, but we're concerned that any change [Technical difficulty—Editor] regulations that are required for Canadian content, Canadian producers and writers, and Canadian actors to tell the Canadian story.
When I think about this issue when I'm talking to representatives at the House of Commons, I think about your job. Your job is to govern Canada, but you're also the image that we portray to the globe. It's the values you portray and the work you do that open up what Canada is to the rest of the world.
Our members do that each and every day. It's the stories they portray. It's the stories that are told here in Canada that provide a global audience for who Canadians are. What do we value? What do we believe in? What are our lives like? What are our stories? It's so important to keep them uniquely Canadian. We must not allow them to be either watered down or changed because we haven't done what we should in protecting the system that has done so well to protect Canada in this global environment.