Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for being with us this morning, Mr. von Finckenstein, and thanks to your colleagues as well.
The point is not to determine whether the percentage is 99%, 98% or 100%, but to find a solution for people who don't have access to service. Perhaps not everyone has a television at home. That's possible. However, for those who do, the goal is to find a way to offer them this service.
You've presented us with some figures. However, there are what we call rabbit ears back home. They cost nothing, and they come with the television set. You only need to place them on the set. Ultimately, all these costs are probably an attempt to make money from poor people who can't afford to pay for services to watch the Olympic Games.
Mr. Chairman, you've distributed correspondence between CTV and Radio-Canada to us. Ultimately you wind up thinking this is about minor matters, that we're bogging down in details. And yet the date of the games is approaching. Will we have to wait until December 2009 for everybody to agree? Perhaps we could find a solution right now.
There are people back home who aren't cable subscribers. In their case, watching the Olympic Games is a problem. There are francophones in rural areas in New Brunswick. The problems may be of a financial nature, but couldn't we show a little good will for the benefit of the sports community and the public?