Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing.
I want to talk about stockpiling, but in a somewhat different way. I understand that it has come up in other committee meetings that there is an amazing backlog of programming at the CBC, but it's not available.
There are those of us at the table who can remember—I don't know how many decades back—what that programming looked like. When I first got married, CBC was the only television station we could receive in northern Ontario.
All those programs that people would love to see through the Internet aren't available. This was part of the discussion in the last ACTRA agreement concerning compensation for performers and so on. This was one of the things that held that back.
If you could, please talk about how we can move forward getting the CBC catalogue online—there are some amazing programs there—and what the costs might be. Can you think of a fair distribution system for doing this? I'd like to give you a chance to put this on the record.
I know that the BBC has their online catalogue now, so somehow they've been able to reach an agreement about how to do that. Perhaps you could comment on this as well.
Thank you.