Chair, providing that the responses are not too long, and even worse, that the comments from the questioner are fairly brief, I'll share my time with Ms. Bateman.
As a prologue, my good friend Monsieur Côté made a comment. He and I sat on the international trade committee together. He made a comment about the importance of trade and the challenges of emerging markets.
At some point it would be interesting to get some of you also before the international trade committee as witnesses to get a sense of what issues on CETA could impact upon your industries.
Perhaps I misunderstood, but I want to make sure that the record is clear. I would say that there is a strong emphasis on the part of this government to promote more and stronger trade deals. As a result of CETA, our European comprehensive economic trade agreement, we will now have, between NAFTA and CETA, the two strongest economic markets in the world, of some 950 million or close to a billion people.
We're not done. We have the Pacific alliance and the Trans-Pacific Partnership that we're focusing on, as well as the attention we are putting towards Japan, India, and South Korea. You probably didn't need to know that, but I heard my colleague and friend make that comment. I just wanted to clarify.
I've learned a lesson through all of this, that the prototype of the individual who is the perfect digital gaming employee is not 23 years old, does not necessarily wear jeans, although I'm curious, and doesn't wear thick glasses. They look a lot like Dan Harris, actually, I'm told. God help you all, if that's true, but it is what it is.
Here is the question I have for our friends here.
Mr. Peacock, you made a comment in earlier testimony. You said that TV is suffering. I thought about that long and hard, but you said that video gaming has picked up the slack to some degree, because actors have gone into it to some very positive degree. I hope it's financially rewarding.
But isn't this logical? I was thinking of Canada Post. What are some of the challenges of Canada Post? It's a million fewer pieces of mail every year. What is the challenge facing television? I think people are going towards computers, and the little kids are watching TV less and playing the games more.
Isn't this logical? Is this just a kind of evolution? Would you imagine, or could you imagine a push back to TV, or is that the good old days at this point? You are young, but is that the good old days?