—but English CBC doesn't see it.
Now, that said, we come back to the same question all the time about the CBC, and that is resources. Does the CBC have resources? Does it have sufficient resources to be able to do what it is mandated to do? That's the second question. So you might want to comment on that.
But I also want to comment on the Kamloops issue. Given that subparagraph 3(1)(m)(ii) of CBC's mandate is that it must “reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences, while serving the special needs of those regions”, I don't understand why it is that the CBC.... I understand the technological problem with moving from analog to digital, but given that it is a huge part of the CBC's mandate and it's not doing it is of great concern to me, especially when it says under subparagraph 3(1)(m)(vii) that all of this Canadian programming must “be made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means”.
Obviously we have a problem again. I read the letter where CBC is telling you, yes, it knows what it must do with it and it doesn't have resources with which to do it. While resources are only one big part of the problem—it is a huge part of the problem, obviously, that CBC is facing—the second part of the problem is that you can give people as many resources as you want, but if the will isn't there to do the right thing and if no one wants to understand that Canada is vast in terms of its regions, its demographics, its people, its cultures, its diversity, then obviously it's going to be harder for us to do it; and the CBC is going to need the funding, with just 32 million people rattling around in this big and difficult geographical terrain. So we have to see how the CBC does that, but they must commit to doing it. That's the second piece.
Those are basically the two things I wanted to comment on and maybe get your feedback. But I also want to speak to Richard.
I would like to ask you a question, and perhaps you could all answer. What would happen if, tomorrow, the CBC was cancelled and there was no more CBC? What would that mean to you? I would like you to answer that.