I would expand your question to say the level of funding and investing the Canadian government makes in arts and culture in general, because this is our viewpoint. I'm focusing more on the CBC here today, but it's just one of the components of the big picture. It is our published position--and it is supported by all of the various organizations we deal with--that within the recognition of the limitations of the public purse, the Canadian government does not invest sufficiently in arts and culture. It's a very important sector of our economy. It plays a role in all sorts of ways and fashions, whether it's through education, through health care. Arts and culture are to be found everywhere. They're not only the kind of thing that elevates you.
So there is not enough of an investment in that sense. The government itself.... And I'm not attacking this government, because the cuts took place under another government, and before that under another government, so it's not partisan at all. It's just a question of no, we're not investing. As a society we are not investing. Statistics show it internationally. We're not investing enough in arts and culture.
On the CBC funding, we're not investing enough either. Should all the money that it requires to fulfill its mandate adequately in the new environment and produce truly Canadian content and contribute to the development of this sector by having farm teams, making experiments, being daring, trying things that would not work commercially.... We owe it to ourselves to have such practice teams or development teams, and that I see as part of the CBC. And that's why, no, there is not enough investment.
How much? Should it all come from government? I'm not saying so. We're talking about putting levies on distribution forms to contribute to Canadian content. Some of it can come through there, through the CTF, or other funds like that.