I will start with that.
Mr. Godin, the table does indicate that seven positions will be cut in New Brunswick. However, I don't want to start saying that five positions are being cut in Toronto or elsewhere. In fact, they are many more than that. An important point about the environment we are currently facing is that the cuts will hurt CBC/Radio-Canada. Cuts of $82 million are being made at CBC, and the Radio-Canada budget is losing $42 million or $43 million.
The number of positions affected is indicated. You say that practically the same number of positions are being cut on the French side and on the English side, and that seems like an imbalance to you. However, that is explained by the production models and the choices we are making. For instance, at Radio-Canada, we do more production in house.
Don't forget that 60¢ on every dollar invested in CBC/Radio-Canada is used to pay wages. If we have to make these kinds of cuts, full-time positions will clearly be affected. We don't have machines that make glasses or chairs. Our employees are highly talented individuals involved in programming. On each dollar invested, 60¢ is used to pay wages.
I want to come back to what you said. I remind you that the cuts at CBC amount to $82 million and those at Radio-Canada amount to $42 million. We are talking about significant cuts. I repeat that we have a very broad mandate and are increasingly underfunded. The mandate will be negatively affected by that lack of funding. However, we think that our mandate is behind the cuts we are making.
When Patricia sits down with Louis Lalande, who tells her that she needs to come up with x millions of dollars and asks her how she will do that, she takes into consideration the minority communities and the regions. The same goes for Shelagh. Maybe she can talk about the process that leads to these decisions.