I can give you an example. Things are indeed going well in terms of radio and French-language television ratings and use of our new media services. If you consider just use and ratings, things are going very well.
However, because of the lack of new funding in recent years, the gap between Canadians' expectations and what we can offer is increasing. That's what you will observe if you travel around the regions.
Working in the cultural world is like working in a china shop. Everyone is fragile: Francophones outside Quebec, the people in the Gaspé, the cultural and theatre community, the scientific program community. Whenever you touch one of our functions, you touch something extremely fragile. So the gap is increasing between what Canadians would like to get from the CBC and what we are capable of doing.
Furthermore, particularly in television, the economic model is in trouble, particularly for generalist networks like ours. Commercial funding is declining. It is becoming increasingly difficult to finance series. We see this in Quebec with the issue of high-cost series. We see it virtually everywhere. It's hard to launch a new series. Our schedule is still operating well because it makes considerable room for news and public affairs programs, a number of Canadian dramas and high-quality variety programs.
However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to support funding. Over the longer term, that could result, on the one hand, in declining quality in our productions and, on the other hand, in difficulty in ensuring a presence in certain sectors where people rightly think that is absolutely essential, whether it be Francophones outside Quebec, people from the Gaspé, or the cultural or literary community. So that creates an extremely difficult situation. The model is threatened over the long term.