The question of proportionality, in terms of who carries what share of the burden of managing an austerity moment in a budget, is an important and interesting question. However, I think it needs to be acknowledged that CBC has, for the better part of 20 years now, been functioning very much on an austerity footing. Its responsibilities have been growing. It's been charged with responding in new and alternative platforms, working on the digital side as well as the television side. It's been doing that; it has been stepping up, but it has not been getting much more in the way of funding, as I mentioned earlier. It's been 8% over 18 years. In the same period, Canada's cultural expenditures in other areas have gone up about 73%.
So that is just to say there is a kind of balancing act.