Well, I feel like Castro: I'm on my third vice-president of CBC television, and I'll probably still be producing when I meet with my fourth. So the CBC vision is, I think, still the same.
I would argue that what Mr. Stursberg is doing is really interesting. I mean, it's going to offend a lot of sensibilities because of the so-called lower-brow reality lifestyle type of stuff, but I would argue that if he had the resources to be able to open up what some may think of as non-destructive time slots, like regional time slots that you can put material into to see how it resonates with that audience before it went to the national audience, I think he would jump at it.
If you can't sell a product at home it's not fair to expect that you're going to sell it at foreign. If you're making a prairie show and you can't sell it in the prairies, well, then it's not reasonable to expect that it's going to do well on the network or that it's going to do well internationally. Of course, there are exceptions. If there were the resources available to be able to produce for smaller audiences, I think they would jump at it. I also believe that they would jump at being able to produce pilots that do not necessarily have to be televised in prime time.
In Canada, it's virtually impossible for a television station to produce a pilot through the conventional system with independents and not air it. If they do not air it, they're offside with the tax credits and offside with the Canadian Television Fund, so the freight has to be carried completely by the broadcaster. If there were an ability to be able to do pilots and then run them out in Newfoundland or the prairies, I think they would jump at it. But this is an expensive undertaking.