Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank Ms. Todd for presenting. That was an excellent and very in-depth presentation. You touched on so many points that we've heard repeated in our review.
I'd like to talk about the local picture and what kind of impact there has been in Manitoba with CBC and its relationship to MMPIA, including independent producers.
We heard from ACTRA this morning that over the last 10 to 15 years they have gone from participating in a vibrant type of environment to feeling that there isn't an environment to participate in any more. Gone are the days of radio drama, and gone are the days of feeling that as actors they were going to get calls from any CBC production to have an opportunity to even have day jobs.
On page 4 you say, “We find that the local office of CBC is not given a clear mandate to develop programming or the financial support or resources to accomplish it.” Following that is a graph that clearly shows investment has gone down over the last ten years. Can you talk about the impact you've seen since maybe 1996 or 1997?