Thank you for your testimony.
It's been rather interesting that Ms. Fry and now Ms. Bourgeois brought up the issue of funding. I'm about to do the same thing, because what we have is you in a very unique position, as the Canadian Conference of the Arts, where you would be aware of the funding that goes into many aspects of arts. Certainly we round it out roughly at $1 billion that goes to the CBC.
The question, really, is where the funding should come from, and should it be more, should it be less. I think that you have some turf of your own to be protecting, because there's not an infinite envelope of taxpayer money, and I know that you respect that. Therefore I think you are in a position, and we should be prevailing on you to give us an opinion, as an interested party, on the current level of funding that comes from general revenue to the CBC.