Let me try to start, Mr. Julian.
There's a gap now in the bill. That's the main thing. That's our key point—there's a gap. Right now the Broadcasting Act clearly covers the activities of cable and satellite companies. They're called distribution undertakings. It's clearly covered in the act. There's a regulatory regime and ultimately the CRTC has clear jurisdiction to ensure that all players are treated fairly and that everybody makes an appropriate contribution to Canadian broadcasting.
Bill C-11 goes a little bit along that path, but it doesn't create a similar environment for online distributors. These are the platforms like Roku and others that make available programming services with third parties on their platforms. Increasingly, our own Canadian cable and satellite companies are going to take this route. They're going to take their services online. They're going to use the Internet to deliver third party programming services.
Our concern is that the commission will not have the same type of authority in that environment that it has now in the cable and satellite environment. Ultimately, I think we're going to look at a substantial weakening of how Canadian programming services are delivered to Canadians in our own market. I think you heard from Mr. Danks last week that access by Canadian services to the domestic market is really a precondition for global access on these platforms. We need to use our own market to our own advantage, and to that end we need sufficient authority to make sure Canadian services are present and treated fairly.