Thank you very much.
My question is to Mr. Jolly.
I represent a part of Manitoba that has 41 first nations, three large urban centres and numerous rural communities. In terms of the media landscape, it's an absolute desert. We have four newspapers, and most of them are hanging on by a thread.
As I mentioned earlier, the CBC has abandoned us. We have a very active radio station in our three urban centres that goes above and beyond— I'm talking about the CHTM and the CFAR network—but the reality is grim here. Our newspapers rely, big time, on the work of reporters supported by the local journalism initiative. It is the way our communities hear news that comes from other communities, from our province, from Winnipeg and, dare I say, from Ottawa, the faraway place. The reality is that our newspapers rely on sharing the work of these reporters.
We know that more than 400 local journalism reporters are serving more than some 1,400 local communities. How important is it for this kind of support to continue?