Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank Mr. Hardacre and the ACTRA members for their presentation today.
Indeed, I have had the great opportunity to work as an artist as well in your profession. I have known that there was and is really something inextricable...about ACTRA and the artists it represents, and the CBC, and how that is part of its mandate, ensuring that Canadian talent is nurtured and is promoted and has a platform.
We heard from ACTRA when we had our hearing in Manitoba, and one of the comments they made was that in the last decade the cuts to CBC have impacted the local artists in such a way that they feel they really don't have a relationship to CBC any more. So there is no radio drama, and that was a regular gig for many actors, and they're not getting day calls to be on a CBC series or an MOW.
Could you talk about the impact of the cuts on your members?