Yes. I would definitely like it if you could put together some stuff for our committee to look at, because I think governance structure is something we need to look at.
Secondly, I want to follow up on this very interesting discussion of the “long tail”. I think we'll probably have to go for a beer to do that, as opposed to the three minutes I'm being allotted by our very strict chair.
I was listening to CBC the other day while driving across northern Ontario, and we had a letter on CBC from a woman in Korea. She listens to the news at home now. She keeps in touch through the Internet, and it made me realize again the role of the new platforms in reaching out.
I want to ask you about the LaPierre report of 2005, which was the charter for the online cultural citizen. It had nothing to do with CBC per se, and it's not going to be too specific on LaPierre, not to worry, but what LaPierre was talking about was really the need for Canada to look forward in developing an online cultural presence in the 21st century so that we are in the forefront of new media as it's happening. He had made the recommendation of setting up an agency with a similar budget to the CBC to ensure that kind of presence, and perhaps because of that request I haven't heard of his report again from anybody in government.
I'm wondering about how useful it would be to have the CBC assume some of those roles in terms of ensuring market platforms for film, for music, so that people around the world can go on to a site and get access, as you suggest in the “long tail”, to Canadian products in a downloadable fashion that they can pay for. And since CBC already has a strong online presence and since it already has an international audience, has the heritage department looked at ways of perhaps even a one-time increase to the CBC to allow the creation of some kind of online platform system?