I think cuts to funding from CBC in the regions just happened. They cut it in Montreal and in the regions as well.
My argument has always been that you have twenty cards and I have one card, so let's each cut ourselves one card. We both lose a card, but you still have nineteen cards.
We're cutting both ways, but at the same time you have to understand the impact of what has happened. In the seventies and eighties we had seven directors doing dramas and variety. We had a strong community, and they all left. The signal was that there was no future here. Radio-Canada is the only one that has a mandate and is established in the regions. These people care about us, but once there was no more work, that was the signal, and it should not happen again.
Either we're in this country for the long term or we're not. Sometimes you go to Quebec and they think it's a lost cause. So if on top of that the policies don't say we're in it for the long term, they have to change their mindset. Otherwise you say we cut over there.... If they're already convinced we're a lost cause, they'll say “Let's not invest over there”.