Thank you.
We have two minutes.
Mr. Tabor, on your point on the regulation, I've asked the researchers, but if you have anything to submit to us on that, I think the committee would like to look at the details. I'll finish up with that.
Ms. Sannella, the designers have said, with respect to the S and T strategy, that they feel they were not included in the first draft. It was obviously the first draft. I think, as Mr. Carrie indicated, there's certainly opportunity to be included in the discussion. We can certainly submit your name. If there is anyone else who should be included in that S and T discussion, please let us know. I don't think it was an oversight; I think there was sort of a first draft discussion. But you can certainly be included.
I just want to finish up with Mr. Hardacre.
I was part of the committee that recommended the four recommendations on foreign ownership to which you referred. One of the witnesses we had at the time was Leonard Asper. I remember the committee chiding him for not putting enough resources into drama, and I used the term “English drama”. He challenged the committee and asked the committee two questions. He asked how many around the table had seen Law and Order. We all put up our hands. He asked how many had seen the flagship show Blue Murder. Not one member of any party put up a hand. His response was, “You're going to chide me for not putting resources into drama, but the fact is that none of you watch it”.
This is a very long discussion, but that's a very challenging point. We all support it. It's like asking if you support Canadian content on television. We all do. It's like asking if you love your mother. Of course we do. But if we don't actually act on that and watch it... There are some comedies that have done well, but in terms of drama, it seems that Canadians are choosing Law and Order over Da Vinci's Inquest, or whatever. I think that's what Mr. Van Kesteren was hitting at from that perspective. Will Canadians watch drama, whether it's subsidized or not, that is produced here in Canada?