Thank you very much.
I appreciate your input today. I'm just wondering if you might be in conflict with something that happened a few years ago when we did the study of the status of broadcasting in Canada. One of the things that came out of that was the idea that CBC radio had an opportunity and a responsibility to be more reflective and to do more at the local level.
As it happens, in my constituency, where my constituency office is, they're looking at the following. If we receive funding, CBC says, CBC will be producing a morning show in the Kootenays, produced in Cranbrook. You'll have increased content for the noon show, which will remain regional because you have a staff person on the ground feeding content. It's going to improve. You'll have local news incorporated into the newscast seven days a week. There'll also be a cultural component to the station: there will be local culture on the local radio. It will be able to promote local culture to the network, so there will be local exposure for Kootenay artists on the network, artists, authors, comedians, musicians--we're talking about all sorts of artists. They're looking for $25 million to make this happen across Canada, not just for that.
What the CBC has done, to their credit, is respond positively to the direction of that report, the so-called Lincoln report, and they are moving forward. It strikes me from everything you've said today that in fact what they're doing is responding to what you say you're responding to. I think there is some head-on conflict here, and I wonder if you'd help us resolve that appearance of conflict.