Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his very important and relevant question.
One of the things with respect to the broadening of the definition is if we look at the SOCAN exception it has added communications by telecommunication in its definition of cultural industries. I think this is something we are going to have to debate as to what are cultural industries. We cannot predict in the future what our new cultural industries will be.
I do not believe that the NAFTA definition is simply enough. But I also take the recommendation made by the Canadian Conference of the Arts that one way we can ensure we can protect and promote our cultural industries abroad and have them compete in this competitive world is by making culture self-judging.