Mr. Lacroix, you have talked about your mandate to inform, enlighten and entertain, and also about the drop in your revenues. It is all true, we understand, we have all the documents. The fact remains that choices have to be made.
Here is my first question for you. Do you not feel that, given your commercial choices, which often mimic those of private enterprise and its flood of deathly boring entertainment at prime time—I am one of those looking for information—CBC is somewhat moving away from its original mandate?
Should you not be using other productions instead? For example, on French Radio-Canada, we never get to see programs produced in other provinces. This week, I heard a report on Radio-Canada about transportation problems in Toronto. I think that was the first time. I was happy because I told myself that it was not just Montreal that has problems; Toronto has even more. But that was the first I had heard of them.
Sometimes, programs in French are shown in other provinces around noon or 2:00 p.m. when no one is watching television. But never in prime time.
So perhaps our disagreement lies with the choices, especially for OLMCs, for minority groups. They are poorly served, by radio or otherwise. Are there other choices you could make?
Let me continue with my questions and then you can answer them together.
Choices are also made as the result of a vision. When Ron MacLean talked about French-speaking referees, Radio-Canada did not react. Does that not reveal a kind of vision that goes with some of the choices that Radio-Canada makes?