The number one thing you could be doing as legislators would be urging the Department of Canadian Heritage to create a program for support of community radio.
The ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine
has a program that it's quite proud of, and it's had a great impact on community radio in Quebec. I think at the same level it would be appropriate for Canadian Heritage to develop a new program that's specifically targeted to support community-based radio throughout Canada.
Second, I think it would be fair for MPs to support our recommendation to the CRTC that it award some mandatory portion of CCD contributions to the Community Radio Fund of Canada.
I think both these things would include support to official language minority communities by supporting the health of the sector as a whole.