What happened was that in 1993 there was an arrangement through the structural decision of the CRTC to allow systems to decide voluntarily whether to contribute back to a fund or to return funds to subscribers.
People have described that regime. It ended in 1996, 10 years ago. That regime was ended.
Capex was eliminated; the provisions for further capex increases were eliminated. What happened at that point was that the responsibilities for the fund were transferred from the CRTC and their regulatory supervision over to the Department of Canadian Heritage. It then became taken over by the Department of Canadian Heritage. It's quite clearly laid out in the decisions of the commission in 1996-97. It involved funding from the government into that fund, and that was when there was a step taken to make it a partnership.
At that time there was the imposition of a 5% charge allocation on satellites, satellite services, and DTH, and on the cable side a 5% allocation. The community channel was to get 2%, and the rest—the 3%—was to go to the Canadian programming fund or its successors and to individual private funds such as the Shaw Rocket Fund. That was a decision made in 1996.
When people talk about what's happened over the last 13 years, they're describing the first three years, not the last decade.