The reality is that, if we aren't enshrined in this act, we won't have the protections to keep doing what we're doing. Communities will be deprived of multilingual programming. Immigrant communities will not be able to see themselves reflected in the broadcasts. We're going to have a real lack of community connection, which is critical to our democracy.
Without belabouring the point, the reality is that we play a critical role in the discourse and the promotion of Canadian material in this country: Canadian stories, Canadian music and Canadian information. If we're not protected and we're not enshrined in this, we'll continue to be overlooked as funding is handed out, and Canadians won't get that service.