Madam Chair, with your permission, we're going to take a little trip down memory lane.
I'd like to address Michel Lorrain.
When we worked together, Michel, back in 1990–1991, you were the morning host at CHLN. I was there as well. I hosted on weekends, and I was the producer of the program Omnibus with Michel Charland at noon. We had news programming throughout the day. At the time, we called it talk radio, and there was another AM station competing with us, as well as two FM stations. It was a radio market that was fairly representative of markets in similar-sized cities. But above all, there was that strong connection between radio and its community. There was a real relationship with listeners, with the local population. Radio stations like the one we worked at were deeply involved in their communities at the time.
Does that very close, almost fiercely loyal, connection between citizens and their local radio station still exist?
Does that sense of magic still exist in the relationship people have with regional radio stations?