Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I'm going to pick up where my Conservative colleague left off, because as someone who was a news broadcaster up until about six months ago, I'm also concerned.
I have witnessed how local news is diminished whenever there's a major consolidation of news networks. When Canwest Global went bankrupt in 2009-10, a bunch of my colleagues were laid off. We were told we were going to go black in a month if we didn't find a buyer. It was lucky that CHCH News wasn't lost during that time and did find a buyer.
Picking up on what my colleague was saying, how can you be sure that local news won't be affected? Typically, what we see is that we're reassured before the transaction that locals news won't be affected and then a couple of months later, a whole bunch of stations get shut down and journalists get laid off.
Can you assuage our fears a bit about that?