Translation of "indice d'effet local pour l'auditeur " (French → English) :

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-broadcasters not have the effect of depriv ...[+++]ing 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.

Indications were given that socio-economic impacts on the upstream sector, in particular shipbuilding, repairing and maintenance, and on the downstream sector would vary from country to country, but could be locally quite major.