I'll just say one thing. Obviously, what the president said is right. It's not our job to tell Canadians what values they should espouse. Our job is to reflect the full diversity of view within the country.
We were talking about regional before. When we think about regional, I try to think about it in a different way. It's not just that if we do a newscast, we see Calgary or we see Halifax. It's rather that what you want reflected on the national news is the perspective of Calgary or the perspective of Halifax, so that the full diversity of voice of the country, whether it's a regional diversity of voice or a political diversity of voice or a social diversity of voice, is fully reflected on the network.
One of the things we're doing—and which implies, I think, actually a decentralization of the way in which we've approached these kinds of questions in the past—is to put a new emphasis on rebuilding our local and regional presence, but to do so in a way that allows Canadians to participate more effectively in commenting on the news as we provide it, and indeed in helping us determine what the priorities for news coverage should be. With this concept that the president was referring to, called “My CBC”, which we're trialing right now out in Vancouver, we've said to ourselves, “Let's take the totality of our assets—radio, television, online—and let's put them together to create an integrated news service that works in a way to let Canadians can get their news whenever and however they want it, but equally importantly, let's use the power of the new technologies to allow Canadians to participate much more profoundly in the conversation about what constitutes the news.”
And this goes by different kinds of names. Some people call it “citizen journalism”, but what it means is that we use the website to allow people not just to comment on what comes through the news, not just to engage in dialogue with our own journalists as to what they see and the extent to which they think it's accurate or fair, but beyond that to allow them to tell us what it is that we are not covering that they think is important, and beyond that, to say to people that we would welcome their contributions to the news service itself, so that we can create opportunities for them to be able to upload what they think, whether that's in the form of video or voice.
We would like to get rid of the notion that we had in the past, when people thought that “We, the news, tell you what's the news”. That's completely old school. We want to flatten it completely, so that the news essentially becomes a dialogue between citizens on what it is that matters and how it is that they see things. We then become, in some sense, the mediator of that dialogue.