Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, my name is Kealy Wilkinson, and I'm the executive director of the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation. With me today is David Taylor, a member of our board of directors.
We're very grateful, of course, for the opportunity to be here to emphasize the importance of Canada's broadcast heritage and CBC/Radio-Canada's special and very necessary role in that respect.
The physical and programming assets that were built up and acquired over seven decades by the corporation are the result of the investment of public moneys generated in the early years, mainly by licence fees paid by individual set owners, and then from about 1953 onward by parliamentary appropriations, in addition to commercial revenue.