Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Before we begin, I really want to say a quick “thank you” to all of the employees who are here making this happen. I know Ottawa got hit incredibly hard. There were some negative comments about civil servants last week in our committee, and it's truly incredible that we're here and doing this. Thank you all, from translators to the clerk and everyone else for being here.
I'd like to make a quick point. There are a number of witnesses who have been talking about what the chair of the CRTC said in regard to regulating user-generated content. I guess this is politics—people leave out the second line—but the next line of his statement was:
...but if I could just quickly respond to the general tenor of those comments, that's all true today. We could do any of those things today under the Broadcasting Act.
I'd like to ask my first question of Monsieur Payette. In your opening remarks, you said that music has had a hard time reaching Canadian audiences. How would Bill C-11 help Canadian music?