Canadian Heritage committee  Improve the situation for whom?

Canadian Heritage committee  For us? Definitely not.

Canadian Heritage committee  Exactly. As we said in our brief, it represents 70% of our revenues. Moreover, we have no control over that revenue since we are not in charge of our network sales.

Canadian Heritage committee  Under the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, networks can no longer disaffiliate stations. We are asking that the CRTC be given greater power, because it has no role or decision-making power over commercial agreements between the stations and the networks.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Madam Chair, members of Parliament and committee members, my name is Cindy Simard and I am vice-president for news of four Télé Inter-Rives ltée local television stations owned by the Simard family. I am now 40 years old and was a journalist myself.