There's not much I could add except, as a one-time employee of the CBC, to tell you that I joined the CBC because of the best and the brightest. At the time it seemed to me that the best and the brightest either worked for the CBC or came through the doors of the CBC and became program providers on the CBC, and it was a very exciting place to be. I believe it has everything to do with leadership and vision.
During my 15 years or so of relationship with the CBC, I could name the people—I won't—who brought that vision and that passion for what we were doing and that understanding of the nature of the country and the nature and responsibility of public broadcasting. There weren't that many of them, but they did exist, and you knew there was different leadership at the top. You felt it, right down to Inuvik, for heaven's sake. You knew there was somebody there who cared, who knew what he was doing—and usually it was a “he”, of course, in those days, and I guess it still is—and was able to lead and provide the vision that we were able to follow. It has everything to do with that. Money alone will not get the job done, but without money, a leader is hamstrung.