Actually, I would say it's medium.
We do have a fairly reasonable...partly because Winnipeg and Manitoba are known as hotbeds of culture. We do produce, one way or another, with or without the CBC or funding sometimes from the Manitoba Arts Council, quite extraordinary artists. They can't help but be noticed, and they are picked up by producers either here or in other centres.
I'm not quite sure where that energy comes from. It exists here. I think CBC is a very important part of that energy, that ecology, if you like. It plays a different role in radio drama, for instance, than it used to, because it doesn't produce radio drama here anymore. That voice is gone. There were voices from this community, and they now have to go to Calgary or elsewhere.
In terms of music especially, I think we have an extraordinary voice. It's growing and changing in terms of popular as well as classical music. To have the CBC actually come here and spend, say, ten days for the New Music Festival is just extraordinary. Our presence in that world is very high and very significant, both nationally and internationally.