The simple answer is yes.
If I could magnify the answer and pick up a little bit from your interchange with my colleague, you used the words “fear of losing one's culture”, English-taught. The English-speaking people of Canada have been exposed to American audiovisual culture much before anyone else in the world. In fact, the whole world is now exposed to it, but we were the first. We've coined the phrase “satellite rain” in Canada for that type of arrival. It means that English-speaking children who are 12 years old have gone to school for 6,000 hours but have watched 12,000 hours of television, of which 9,000 or 10,000 is life in Los Angeles or Miami. Audiovisual colonization is a major issue.
On the question of fear, a resource that you might find useful is on the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting website. All of the public opinion polls that we have commissioned for the past 10 or 12 years are up there. What Ipsos Reid, our pollster, is telling us is that around questions of culture they are noticing among anglophone Canadians that there is less of a negative fear factor and more of a positive patriotism developing, and it is just that the audiovisual system is not reinforced.
So if there was one thing your committee could do through this study, it would be to put before parliamentary decision-makers that what you have just described is the essential mission of the broadcaster.