Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm going to start with a comment for Ms. Dickenson. I'm very disappointed to hear that you've been forced to cut two important shows from your programming. These aren't the first cuts we've seen in the media landscape or the news industry in recent years, yet they're still just as gut-wrenching.
Earlier, you talked about opinion journalism with my Conservative colleague. I would like you to expand on this new element of the news industry that we've been seeing since the arrival of social media and these new types of journalism, if you will. As you said, we now have opinion journalism, if that can be called journalism, and commentary. I get the impression that people have trouble distinguishing between pure journalism—that is, journalism that involves researching the news and double-checking facts—and opinion journalism, commentaries and editorials. I agree, there is a place for that. I think we can make room for all these types of journalism in our ecosystem. What I'm hearing is that some people are taking advantage of this confusion in order to paint all types of journalism with the same brush so as to condemn and speak out against journalism, which they see as biased.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on that. Do we need a better definition of the types of journalism in the media outlets we turn to?
Is it okay to let people use editorials that are intertwined with serious reports, which suggests that there may be a certain journalistic bias in certain media outlets or among certain reporters? What do you think?