Mr. Angus, you are mixing up two different things. One is, clearly, the CRTC, under statute, takes direction from the minister. The minister can give directions. They have to be public. They're going to be very well debated, etc. Those are directions, policy lines. For instance, the last one was, I think, on the DTH, the direction on how to license satellite providers. That's the process. There's also a provision that she can ask us for reports, as she did in December last year, which resulted in a report in December.
What we're talking about here is the mandate of the CRTC, when there's no such specific global direction, but in effect, to administer the act, the provisions of the act, is the CRTC's responsibility. For that, it is an independent body, specifically made independent. The statute even says, for instance, that the minister cannot give us direction on specific licensing provisions, etc. It wants an independent body there to use its independent judgment.
That's what we're doing. We're using our independent judgment here to ensure that payments are made in the fund because the fund, in our view, is one of the critical elements to ensure Canadian content. When funds are withheld on a monthly basis, it puts the whole funding scheme in jeopardy.