We're very glad you came here today to give us your opinion. We had an excellent meeting with ACTRA in Winnipeg, I have to say.
In all fairness to our committee, we're probably the last people on the planet to decide how to make exciting television and to restore audience share. Our job is to ensure there's accountability, to ensure that a funding mechanism works. In all honesty again, I don't think we've seen one road; we'll probably do what all politicians do and take a mixed bag of options. As is always said, a camel is a horse created by a committee, and maybe that's what our new CBC will look like.
So with that preamble, I just want to put forward some of the scenarios that are coming out for funding, because that is what our job is: how to best fund it. One of the scenarios would be for us to take the CTF funding, say the 63% of it now going into the private broadcasters, and to give it to CBC. So we would give the whole lump of whatever CTF is as a fund to CBC to do drama, and then we would cut all the domestic content obligations on the private broadcasters and let them do what they do well, which is to capture U.S. signals and stick Canadian commercials into the middle of them.
Do you think that would address, number one, the crisis at CBC, and number two, provide a mandate for use of our public airwaves?