Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment deals with the issue of Canadian ownership, which currently appears in paragraph 3(1)(a) of the act. The vast majority of the organizations we met with want the bill to recapture that idea. Basically, we believe it is extremely important to somehow include the participation of online undertakings.
The wording of the amendment was inspired by one of the recommendations in the Yale report. From the current act, we took “the Canadian broadcasting system shall be effectively owned and controlled by Canadians” and we added “foreign online undertakings may also provide programming to Canadians”. Then, we kept the proposed paragraph that begins with the words “each broadcasting undertaking shall contribute to” but renumbered it as new paragraph (a.1).
I just want to make clear that, in light of the discussions we've had, we realize foreign online undertakings could be problematic.
I'll let Ms. Dabrusin talk about that, because I think she was planning to address the subject.