I'll try to be brief.
The issue is that the funding of the CBC is a political football, and has been for a long time, and that since the establishment of the Canadian Television Fund there's been an attempt to move public funding that would have gone into the CBC away from the CBC and put it into an independent fund. And now Shaw and Vidéotron and people are arguing about that. So the CBC requires its own budget to meet its mandate, on top of which there is question about funding independent production that is accessible to all the broadcasters. If the CBC had long-term funding the way they do in Britain, so that it becomes less of an annual political football and is set out that over a ten-year period you're getting x amount, increased by inflation or whatever, leave it at that.