This body regulates our public television system, which is made up of two networks—English public television and French public television.

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 conce ...[+++]rning the granting of licences to re-broadcasters 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.

1. Member States may impose reasonable ‘must carry’ obligations, for the transmission of specified radio and television broadcast channels and complementary services, particularly accessibility services to enable appropriate access for disabled end-users, on undertakings under their jurisdiction providing electronic communications networks used for the distribution of radio or television broadcast channels to the public where a significant number of end-users of such networks use them as their principal means to receive radio and tele ...[+++]vision broadcast channels.

1. Member States may impose reasonable "must carry" obligations, for the transmission of specified radio and television broadcast channels and services, on undertakings under their jurisdiction providing electronic communications networks used for the distribution of radio or television broadcasts to the public where a significant number of end-users of such networks use them as their principal means to receive radio and television broadcasts.

Beside the generalist public and private free-to-air channels (about 83 channels broadcasting a total of about 550 000 hours per year), a growing number of thematic channels are broadcast within the packages offered by pay-TV operators, either via satellite or cable networks as well as by digital terrestrial broadcasting.

1. It will have enabled public authorities, at both national and Community level, to look more closely at the role of public television broadcasting in Europe.