Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank the witnesses very much for being with us today. Once again, their testimony is very enlightening and their opinion is very useful to us.
I'll start with Ms. Blais.
I'd like to talk about paragraph 3(1)(a) of the Broadcasting Act. Bill C‑11 already proposes an amendment to this paragraph, which deals with Canadian ownership. The proposed version is as follows:
(a) the Canadian broadcasting system shall, with the exception of foreign broadcasting undertakings providing programming to Canadians, be effectively owned and controlled by Canadians;
In your proposed amendment, you suggest deleting the exception mentioned in the bill, in order to include all broadcasting undertakings operating in whole or in part in Canada.
Ms. Blais, could you tell me what your intention is in suggesting this amendment to proposed paragraph 3(1)(a)?