Thank you, Richard.
I'd just like to draw your attention to paragraph 32, in which we reference that “in spite of the $60 million in extra funding that the CBC received each year over the past four years, the funding levels are $415 million less than in 1990 (in 2004 dollars).” That's why we've recommended that an annual $60 million be made a permanent part of the appropriation.
Just as a matter of interest, in the latest CFTPA profile, which the producers put out each January and February during their conference, they've noted that actual budgets for programming have declined in the past ten years.
So is there enough in the CBC's coffers to actually do what they propose to do? If you look back into our brief, we've quoted—