Okay. I'll speak briefly to this.
The community groups across Canada, whom I think we've all heard from, are very concerned that we actually protect community broadcasting. This comes from the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations, the National Campus and Community Radio Association,
the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec, the Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada and the Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec.
They are very concerned that we specify that what we're talking about in this section is community broadcasting that is fully community-run.
While Mr. Julian's amendment, as further improved with Mr. Bittle's amendment, speaks to “including” not-for-profit organizations, my amendment, more in keeping with what the community broadcasters want, says that the broadcasting undertaking must be “predominantly” not-for-profit or community-owned.
It's trying to carve out very specifically that when we speak, as we do in Bill C-11, of a “community element”, we are very specifically focused on predominantly the not-for-profit sector and community-owned broadcasting.
Thank you, Madam Chair. My motion, as you know, has been.... All the things you said about how motions proceed don't apply in my case. I am not allowed to table my own motion. It has been deemed to have been tabled. I am not allowed to withdraw my amendment, should it turn out that we'd rather not have it there. I can't do that. All I can do now is speak to it. I can't vote on it. I have to ask others to please consider whether we want to listen to the voices of community broadcasting and bring this motion in as part of the current package that's about to go to a vote.
Thank you very much, everyone.