Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. von Finckenstein.
In taking a look at page 3 of your opening statement, I was interested in the second paragraph, where you say “the legislative and regulatory structure we administer still preserves the old distinctions of broadcasting and telecommunications, or in other words”--and this is the part that I thought was interesting--“the distinctions between content and carriage”. As you go forward, you refer to those as “artificial and outdated concepts”.
When you're talking about the distinctions between content and carriage, I find it interesting that you would call those “artificial and outdated concepts”. It seems to me that the differentiation between content and carriage is the critical question as we move forward in this world of convergence. It seems to be the whole question of Canadian content and culture versus what we're talking about in terms of carriage, in terms of liberalizing the rules regarding carriage without actually impacting the rules regarding content.
Maybe you could clarify what you meant by that.