Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to go back to something Madame Bourgeois raised earlier, the whole issue of funding. One of the suggestions you made was that perhaps we could use royalties in order to provide additional funding to the CBC, which is essentially just more taxation, government money, to do that.
There are other funding models that could be used. Earlier we heard witnesses suggest that private broadcasters should no longer receive any public money; however, the trade-off would be that the private broadcasters would receive the benefit of relaxed Canadian content regulations. Another suggestion was that there is a role for private broadcasters in strengthening the CBC, and in ensuring there's a robust public broadcaster in Canada.
First of all, are you supportive of additional creative ways of finding funding to ensure that the CBC has a long-term future? Second, coould we have your comments on some of the proposals other witnesses have made as to getting the private broadcasters out of the public funding business and also perhaps contributing to a public broadcaster?