Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, and thank you for being here.
First of all, let me start with a semantic comment. I heard the words “multiculturalism” and “multiracial”. Looked at another way, multiculturalism is a political concept and I do not think that it is the role of a public broadcaster to become involved or to be mandated to do that kind of promotional work. As regards the term “multiracial”, humanity is made up of one race, human and undivided. It cannot be fragmented on the basis of pigmentation or of tendencies attributed to skin colour. It has to be accepted as such. I just wanted to make that point.
I have one small question before asking three questions that will help me get a better sense of the thinking in your presentations. Do you recall the decreased budgets for public broadcasters at the beginning of the 1990s? If so, do you know how much those cuts were at that time?