Well, I worry that the CRTC is like generals fighting the last war. The biggest and most important websites in the U.S. now include things like Hulu and Netflix. What is Hulu? Hulu is a place where you can point and click on any TV show you want and then watch it on your computer. And you can connect your computer to your big screen TV, so you can watch it on your big screen TV without going through a cable company, or Comcast, or satellite TV. Netflix does the same thing for movies. Hulu pays for it with commercials that you have to watch when you watch the thing over the web; Netflix charges per viewing. In a world like that, how are you going to have Canadian content percentage restrictions, where instead of listening to a radio station or looking at TV channels on a cable lineup, people simply point and click and listen to whatever they want?
I think technological change means that if we're going to protect Canadian culture, we have to think about it in new ways. What I said before wasn't intended to be flippant. I think you could get rid of the regulations we have now, which impose a huge economic cost, and I think the increased economic activity would let you raise the tax base sufficiently that you could fund direct production of Canadian culture through the CBC, the National Film Board, or whatever.
Canadian music.... It seems to me that's an industry that doesn't really need protection anymore. It's grown up. There is an argument in economics that you protect infant industries, but once the industry grows up, you have to let it go out on its own. You don't want to have these 30-year-old industries living in your basement.