No, but I understood that the motion that set up this study included the Broadcasting Act.
In any event, Mr. Wallace, to get to your point, yes, the Telecommunications Act, in section 7, does require that the telecommunications perform an essential role in the maintenance of Canada's identity and sovereignty and that the Canadian telecommunications policy has as its objective to facilitate the orderly development throughout Canada of a telecommunications system that safeguards, enriches, and strengthens the social and economic fabric of Canada and its regions.
I interpret that as including culture, as actually Flora MacDonald, a Conservative minister, said when she introduced the act in 1987, the restrictions were necessary to ensure national sovereignty over this vital sector of the Canadian economy, and for reasons of national security and economic, social, and cultural well-being.
So the Conservative government at that time understood it, and I would hope it would continue.
Thank you.