I agree with most of the industry. When you move Little Mosque on the Prairie, the involvement in the regions.... If you have a good idea from Winnipeg or Regina and you bring it there.... You could bring a good idea from Toronto to here. What you have to be conscious of as the national broadcaster is you have to feed. If you have a commitment for the long term to get regional content, you have to invest in these regions to build capacity. You have to find your mix. For example, some communities may not have strong dramatic backgrounds, but there's no reason why those communities can't deliver national magazines or other types of productions to the national broadcast.
There are different jobs, and there's the big picture, but there has to be a commitment to sustain capacity in the regions, and they have to find the tools. Good ideas are good ideas, but that has nothing to do with where the production takes place. The CBC has all the options in the world to sustain production in the regions.
I know there's a big issue about quotas, but how do you sensitize the staff? How do you make it part of their business plan to establish the regions? First of all, in the regions there has to be strong staff to sell the ideas. If you put in a token person who has no mandate to really deliver content, that's a clear signal. It's in interpretation of their mandate that I feel there's too much room without expectation.