There's something interesting in the whole thing, if you make it the fact that the fund is a public-private partnership and x amount of money comes from Heritage Canada, the Government of Canada, and x amount of money comes from the BDUs—or EDR—and that's 40-60, or whatever. The point I want to stress is that we're independent producers. Whether my show ends up on TVA, CBC, Astro, CTV, or Global, they're not all the same, but to me the important thing is that an independent producer produces it and that the diversity of creation is respected. That's what the fund does. I don't know what everybody has said, but CBC or SRC do not directly access the fund; it's always through independent producers. As we represent independent producers, I don't think we can be asked to change that.
On February 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.