We've seen this trend for several years. There is a crisis affecting the media and their funding, and that means that the regions are receiving less and less news coverage.
The major media cannot have representatives in all regions of Quebec or Canada. They don't have the means. It's an extremely vast territory, and covering it all is a real challenge.
The community media, on the other hand, are established in the communities. They have been there for years. And they are reliable, because they have been created by and for the communities to meet a real need. I humbly think that community media are underutilized by the system at the moment. Since we are already there, it wouldn't cost much to promote local news in all regions of Quebec and Canada. We do the work for a fraction of the cost of the big networks. A major network can't send a correspondent from Montreal to cover what's happening all over Quebec. You need people on the ground. We are already there.
If the role of community media were recognized in the act and the community element and the role we can play were better defined, that would help us do our job better.