I'm going into my second line of questioning, because my tough chair is going to cut me off momentarily.
I would like to go back to the original arrangement—this 50-50 that was the original cable television fund, and I recognize that it has changed since the early 1990s.
Mr. Stein, you were part of that original group that recommended that this was something that was a good deal, because the cable companies got to keep half the bump-up in fees, and the other half went into what was then the cable television fund. As far as I know, that bump-up has never been returned to subscribers, so it seems—There have been numbers put around that subscribers are owed maybe up to $900. I would think you've done pretty well from this arrangement.
You call this an unfair tax, yet you charge subscribers a fee for signals you get for free; you're protected from foreign competition from, say, DirecTv; you have a market value of over $9 billion; you have a seat on the CTF fund; you've been protected and pampered in the market by the CRTC. Now you come before this committee and ask what assurances we, as members of Parliament, are going to give you in order for you to feel that you should bother having to pay your share of what has been part of your licence. I simply don't understand any other business that can dictate terms like that.