I guess it is a question of fairness. We're not creating something new. This was adjudicated by the Copyright Board. The Copyright Board decided that this is a fair payment. My colleagues in the Conservative Party believe that it's all right to just erase a royalty payment, a royalty right that has been defined as something that is fair. They say that it's a tax.
I love radio. I love private radio. But I'm hearing them talking about double-dipping. I'm hearing this word “tax”, that copyright is somehow a tax on the consumer. My colleagues use that about the levy all the time. Now they are saying that this mechanical is a tax.
Mr. McCarty, I'm looking at the CRTC statistical financial summaries for radio. I'm looking at 1996, when their pre-tax profit margin was 1%. They were close to the bone. They came and they were crying about the hurt. I'm looking at 2009, when their pre-tax profit margin was 21.2%. They had gone from $8.2 million in pre-tax profit to $319 million in that period. What was it like in the music industry between 1996 and 2009?