Mr. Speaker, to give a quick recap, about four minutes ago the member said that everything would happen at arm's length from the government, that the CRTC would be regulating stuff. Then as he was wrapping up his speech, he said that he did not want the government to control what people were seeing.
That is the problem with the Conservative messaging on this. It is all over the place. I have a lot of respect for the member and the work he does in the House, but the reality is that we have a bill before us that is geared toward protecting and helping Canadian content flourish, just as it did when he and I were much younger in the early nineties. The Conservatives' approach to this is much like their approach to just about everything else they talk about, which is to leave it alone and let it sort itself out. That is what they are suggesting through this.
They are saying that we should let Canadian content be found by people, but what we know and what has been proven by the current legislation, which really has helped Canadian content and Canadian culture after its birth, is that it did wonders with respect to promoting Canadian culture, ensuring Canadian content got into the public so we could enjoy it. Otherwise it could have been drowned out by some of the influences from south of the border, for example.