I think it is important not to limit this to the sector. In fact, we need to call on everyone to participate. I agree with many of today's witnesses that we need to think of the public first. Journalists do not work in a vacuum. They work to bring news to Canadians. They are not there to make money because no one gets rich doing this job. People do this job because they want to inform their fellow citizens because they want to share the news with everyone.
It is important to know what Canadians want and what they are looking for and what we, as members of the media, can give them. We can talk about funding and all of that, but at the end of the day, Canada absolutely needs top-quality journalism by and for Canadians. The important thing is not to be subject to news from elsewhere.
It is also crucial to have journalists in the regions, close to the public; people need to see themselves and recognize themselves. I am not just talking about francophones in minority communities or outside Quebec and anglophones in minority communities in Quebec, but also First Nations throughout Canada. In fact, CBC/Radio-Canada, where I worked for 30 years, has just started to increase its presence in the North. However, it is important that this presence be made up of members of the northern communities, who can talk to their colleagues and to the people of their community.
On top of that are many other facets, such as the level of education, in other words the journalists' education, and the sharing of information in the communities. How do we ensure that the media landscape in the country has several facets? We cannot have just one, two or three news media. As someone else mentioned, we need to have multiple sources of information. No journalist will publish news based on just one source; they will seek out two or three sources. The same goes for the media. The public needs to have access to many sources to have better information and to make informed decisions in a democratic country.