That's great. And from the lawns I saw as we came through yesterday, you'll probably need to have the lawn mowers out very soon.
We have travelled here this morning as part of our study of the public broadcaster here in Canada. I'm very pleased to see that the witnesses who put their names forward could be here. We do have, I hope, a fair bit of time this morning.
We are waiting for Ms. Fry. She will be here or, I guess, won't be; whatever.
Welcome to Ms. Savoie and Ms. Bourgeois.
I will begin by thanking Ms. Bourgeois. One presentation that will be made--by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting--is printed out, but it's not in both official languages. I would like to thank Ms. Bourgeois for saying that we can use that particular material here this morning, because I think there are some important graphs in there that could be useful.
I would like to try to hold the introductory presentations to around ten minutes, somewhere in there. Then we can open it up to questions. At the end of that particular time, if we've pursued the different avenues and we still have five, ten, or fifteen minutes at the end, I might ask our parliamentary experts from the parliamentary library if they have any questions for the witnesses. In all fairness, these gentlemen, or this group, will be writing up the report, so if that's suitable to our witnesses, I would hope we could go forward with that.
I would like to welcome this morning, from the Alliance for Arts and Culture, Andrew Wilhelm-Boyles; and from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, Ian Morrison, the spokesperson, and Anne Ironside.
Following the order on my list, perhaps you would go first, please, Mr. Wilhelm-Boyles.