Mr. Scott, what I believe we would have to do is have a dialogue with the community at large, and in particular through Parliament, to define what the priorities for the public broadcaster should be.
One of those priorities would be, and has to be, regional extension and explanation services. We strongly believe that is important. It's one of the reasons why we have changed once again our six o'clock news process and what we are trying to do in terms of developing new services for the regions, which Mr. Stursberg can explain. It's the core of our support in the regions, and the services we provide in terms of local radio is what makes CBC radio such a powerful force in the country. So we recognize it.
We are constrained financially. This is one of the reasons why when your committee put forward a report, we responded quite quickly in terms of what it would take to have a quality, regionally based service above and beyond the services we now run, and how they would all link together. A contract is a negotiation. What can you do, what will it cost, what are we willing to do, what are we willing to pay for? If it was the will of Parliament and the House that significant resources be assigned to regional local programming, that is what would be in the contract, and that's what we would be doing.