Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for allowing me to pinch-hit. It's nice to be back on the heritage committee, albeit for a brief moment. It's good to see you again, and Mr. Lahaie as well.
And Charlie, you're the apple of my eye, what can I tell you.
I want to talk about local production, but first I have a comment about the news hour. If you remember, about a year and a half ago we had the president of the CBC here, and I brought up that issue with him about the ill effects of going back to 30 minutes, about the detrimental situation. I wish I'd had numbers that Ms. Golfman had, because that would have illustrated my point much better.
However, the president did shock me at the time and say that it was moving back to 60 minutes, but it was only a pilot project. I'm under the assumption that we are still under that status of being a pilot project--although a friend of mine there at the back shakes his head and says that's not the case.
I'm assuming that it's all systems go?
I get a nod from the audience, but—