I guess the question that I have--and it's been raised a couple of times--is that we are paying, as taxpayers and through government, a phenomenal amount of money to produce Canadian content. We've got the Telefilm envelope. We have the CTF envelope. We have the Independent Video Fund envelope, and we have the National Film Board. It might have all been a great idea in the 1970s, but should we be talking brass tacks here? In 2007, when, obviously, the CBC summer schedule is a bunch of American movies that I can get at my video store, should we be doing some kind of consolidation of all these funding envelopes to make sure that these points-of-view documentaries, this really good content that we're creating, has an outlet? Would it be possible to look at this other channel--it's going to be very difficult to compete with the commercial network with all the pressure that it's under--and to use this other channel as a stream to actually showcase the best of everything that's being produced in Canada? Is that a dialogue that could go on?
On May 24th, 2007. See this statement in context.