Thank you for coming today.
I'm going to ask about the two issues of radio and television, and I'll start with radio.
When I used to tour the country as a professional musician, I guess my eyes were opened to the role that CBC radio played. As a young group, I don't think we ever listened to CBC. It wasn't on our radar--until we began to tour. In every city we came across, we were always brought into the CBC recording studios and radio studios for interviews, especially in western Canada. Calgary, for example, is the nation's centre, I would say, for folk group music on radio. It comes out of Calgary. So it was an eye-opener for us, travelling across the country, to see the role that CBC radio played in terms of exposing artists to a regional audience but also exposing regional artists back to the nation.
Can you give me your sense of how well CBC radio does in terms of presenting Manitoba on radio and also ensuring that Manitoba voices are heard at the national level?