You can obviously see a lot of things in that, but what I retain, because it interested me a great deal, is that the Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame would really have wanted to go further and present francophone artists. As we didn't hear from the people from the Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame, we didn't get their point of view.
I think that's feasible. I spoke with the ADISQ people—because I was in the room—who explained to me that, when ADISQ broadcast its show, even though it was essentially francophone, artists like Simple Plan were able to speak in English and that was possible in that context.
Another contradiction emerges from a reading of the brief. CBC/Radio-Canada seems to say that the francophone artists were warned that they would be edited out. However, people like Mr. Dubois seemed to contradict that.
Do francophone artists know they'll be edited out when they agree to appear?