Translation of "Station terminale régionale d'émission " (French → English) :

Senator Poulin: Honourable senators, French speaking Ontario has not only lost a regional radio station: during the financial difficulties of our only public and national broadcaster, the only public affairs program, Ontario 30, produced by Ontario's four regional stations — CJBC in Toronto, CBON in Sudbury, CBOF in Ottawa, and CBEF in Windsor, which no longer exists — was the only program to be cancelled.

Impératif français is asking the Government of Canada to adopt those laws, regulations and policies necessary for Canadians to have priority access to Canadian public and private television stations, so that Canadians living in that part of Canada outside Quebec may have analog access to the greatest possible number of French-language Canadian television public and private stations; so that in Canada's capital, Ottawa, the capital of both official languages, Canadian citizens have priority analog access to Canadian television station signals; so that the policy and regulations of the CRTC concerning the granting of licences to re-broad ...[+++]casters not have the effect of depriving Canadians of higher Canadian content television stations and increase the disparity between services available in French and in English; so that Canadian cable distributors reserve the best basic digital signals on the analog band to those Canadian television stations with the highest Canadian content in their programming during prime time; so that the Canadian government and the television and cable distribution industries put more resources into producing and broadcasting Canadian programs and consequently make sure that adequate funding be available—I think that with the proliferation of new television stations, we are sentenced to excellence and we'll have to do even better; so that Canadians have greater access to a greater number of Canadian programs produced and broadcast by Canadian television stations; so that viewers and listeners have access to more local, regional and community television and radio production; so that all regulations on broadcasting discriminating in favour of anglophone markets and foreign anglophone stations to the detriment of French-language Canadian stations be eliminated whether the grid is digital or analog (1110) I'd also like to suggest a few amendments to the Broadcasting Act.

As for other programs from western stations, services will remain essentially the same and regional teams will continue to produce news stories and information programs that will be broadcasted by Radio-Canada and RDI. The French language radio will provide $500,000 in additional support to the stations most affected, namely Regina, Edmonton, Vancouver and Windsor, to focus on regional and local programming.

In addition, regional stations will continue to produce children's, news and special broadcasts focusing on events of importance to these communities.