Let me just go back to a couple of the earlier points.
I think the mandate is general and broad enough that a well-funded CBC could meet that mandate and Canadians would be well served. Of course, as I say, it does compete with the private sector, because it's competing for eyeballs. That's the idea. You want to get people watching your show, whether it's a show on the nightlife of the beaver or whether it's Desperate Housewives.
On the question of whether they are using their funding appropriately, there are shows that I as an average Canadian would like to see that I don't see on the CBC. But you know what? There are a lot of shows that lots of people watch that I don't watch. So it's not really up to me to make those kinds of programming choices. I think that's what you're talking about.
What I do see is this. Because there's a need to compete for advertising revenue, sometimes the CBC is put in a position where it is producing programs that are more like the private sector than perhaps should be available for a public sector broadcaster. But there again, as I say, I'm not sure. There are lots of things.
Even while on a number of stations across this country perhaps audience share is a bit abysmal, that's true for a lot of private sector programming as well. So it's not as though CBC television has gone downhill and everybody else has just soared. One just has to look at the track record of Global television to tell you that there are some questions about their choices as well.