I think Mr. Shaw engaged in a smear campaign against Canadian television to suit his own purposes, and to be frank, I think he's full of it. I think you were not in the room at the beginning of my presentation when I cited a number of examples of quality Canadian television that regularly get over two or three million viewers. Those are high numbers in a country with our population.
You can go from Corner Gas to Degrassi to Little Mosque on the Prairie to numerous television movies that regularly get high audiences, that Canadians love, and if they weren't of quality then he's calling down Canadian audiences, and I think he's full of BS.
He did that to suit his own purposes, and he has a monopoly in the Canadian marketplace that serves him very well, thank you very much. So he can throw tomatoes at himself as far as I am concerned. It's just not true. It's not even that we get recognition outside Canada; we get recognition inside Canada. The telltale sign is that private broadcasters see they can make money on Canadian content, because in this business, money means audience share. CTV is making money from Canadian content and so is Global. The only reason they ever did it was that they were mandated to do so in the first place, and now they're making money. You know what? They're not going to stop, because they are making money.