Canadian Heritage committee  Sorry. I'll do the same with my answers. Sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I won't qualify it as the minister's action or inaction, but it would be a good time to act overall.

Canadian Heritage committee  Last Tuesday, we publicly made this recommendation. I have heard nothing back. I do not know if—

Canadian Heritage committee  You can complete the answer, Claire. We had a press conference with the sectoral associations, not only the employers' association, but also the union association, the directors' association, the technicians' associations and, of course, l'Union des artistes, of which you are perhaps still a member, Mr.

Canadian Heritage committee  If I may, I'll give you the reason we're asking for this particular recommendation. During the next few weeks, broadcasters will be making their programming for next year. For the past few years they've counted on the CTF as a provisioning factor, if you will, or a stability factor.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to give you the same answer that Mr. Barrett gave earlier. Unfortunately, I cannot say that I am not a lawyer, because I am. Nevertheless, I really do not know. We've seen both sides of the coin. We state our position in our presentation; the presentation of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association mentions this as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  A giant like Quebecor Media, whose annual turnover is $2.7 billion, already enjoys a very favourable position in the Quebec market where it benefits from a very high level of media concentration that could threaten the diversity of voices. There is Videotron, TVA, JPL Production, Illico, Canoë, the Journal de Montréal, the Journal de Québec, to name a few.

Canadian Heritage committee  Vidéotron and Shaw are behaving like bad corporate citizens in attempting to impose their views not through dialogue, discussion, and negotiation with their partners, but with an irresponsible show of power apt to destabilize the entire financing system for Canadian independent programs.