Thank you.
Thanks very much, to each of you, for being here with us this afternoon.
When it comes to the information on section 68.1, certainly this is something this committee has been looking at for quite some time. I think you're probably all well aware that we did an extensive study on that and recommended that section be amended in order to comply with the Federal Court of Appeal's decisions on the matter. I'm quite sure you would have followed that. Now we're looking at Bill C-461 and discussing the same issue with section 68.1.
Madame Bertrand, you talked about your concerns with the bill, that as it's currently drafted it would have some unintended consequences. You were afraid, in your words, that it may undermine CBC/Radio-Canada's “ability to do its job as mandated by Parliament”. I would like you to talk a little bit about that. As well, you talked about the bill removing current protections for journalism, and the Federal Court of Appeal making section 68.1 crystal clear and how that should continue.
We've heard from the mover of the bill that he feels his bill absolutely upholds the Federal Court of Appeal's decision on section 68.1. I'd like to know why you feel it doesn't, if in fact that's what you do feel.
Also, when we heard from the commissioner the last time, she told us that since 2007 they've looked at close to 1,200 cases in relation to CBC and they have about 200 remaining. Out of all those cases, no case has dealt with journalistic sources, and she thinks that's an important fact to know when we consider possible amendments. Can you also talk about the fact that out of all of those cases she has not dealt with any dealing with journalistic sources?
There are three or four different things there that I'd like you to talk about, please.