Thank you very much for your presentation today.
I have one question and then a broader one. I'd like you to describe what you were talking about, Mr. Rabinovitch, with subscriber fees. That was in the latter part of your presentation and it seemed to be an orphan, so I didn't understand what it was about.
I think it would be very helpful, not only for people on this committee but for Canadians at large who are all investing $30 a year in the CBC.... With the $900 million plus that the CBC is getting, people understandably are asking, how does all that work?
I have read through CBC financial documents and so on and so forth. Either I'm very slow or somebody is very fast at being able to put together documents that ordinary laymen can't understand. I would dearly love to see on one, at the most two, pages, “The management and overhead for the CBC is x number of dollars; the expenditures on CBC English television are y number of dollars; the revenue side is z number of dollars.” Do you understand what I'm saying--simply bang, bang, bang, bang?
It would be exceptionally beneficial and would enable us to conduct sometimes more intelligent discussions about the CBC if you could completely grossly oversimplify the numbers for us.