Yes. When the various parties came together—and I was actually part of the process where Heritage Canada, Telefilm, and all these institutions made the decision that the francophones outside of Quebec were going to be part of their business plans and they established policies that favoured this type of decision--it sent a clear signal to all the broadcasters that there were resources for productions that come from the regions. This has done a lot to set the stage, but I feel that at Radio-Canada.... Even though lately, I must say, in the past couple years, there's been a change and a commitment to what's going on, my concern is that when this phase of people come over, then where are we again? Where are we with the policies? This is why I feel that the decision has to be at this level. Once the money gets down there, people start making decisions about priorities.
This is why I think the regions become negotiable things, and I don't think they should be negotiable. I don't think we should weaken Montreal to support the regions, but I think that the regions should not be negotiable. If you're mandated to have content coming from the regions, and not just news, then it will have to be that people have documentaries and other kinds of content. Once that's established, then the signal to Radio-Canada will be that they have to work up a business strategy to make sure that what they're getting from Vancouver or Winnipeg is quality stuff that could be broadcast on the national broadcaster. So we have to work on a long-term strategy.