That's why I think it's important that the mandates be clear and that we be able to change them as necessary. They are generally followed. I cited the example of 1991, when we put it in the act that private producers had to be more involved in Radio-Canada television. There was literally an explosion of new production companies, which resulted in a high level of vitality in the industry. So those rules are followed. Perhaps they should be changed more regularly, verified and quantified to see whether that worked well. No one can deny that it has worked extremely well in the private production sector. If content rules are established, they must be made very clear and their application verified. There are screenwriters. Does that count? Yes, it counts, but they are also needed for direction. That's not very well known.
Moreover, on the list, we're called producers. We are directors. That's different. Monique is a producer, but we are directors. We make artistic choices in the same way as screenwriters do. We do the creation. Production is a creative thing. Producers—Monique is one of my producers, and I can't say anything bad about her, because she's great—do a very good job and are creative in part. No one will say that Denys Arcand's films are women's films, even though they were produced by a woman. When you think of similar things, you have to say that directors have to have an important place at Radio-Canada and throughout the corporation. That's where the reality of women is conveyed, whether it be a mother's reality or that of anyone else. Radio-Canada has to put more women on the screen.
In the United States, the surveys have started to change. Americans may have started to accept the idea of having a woman president when a very popular actress played the role of president of the United States in a television series. So you see how important television is. Fiction and documentaries enter people's living rooms. I have previously heard children ask why boys were better than girls. That's because, on television, it's one thing or another. Television is starting to tell my daughter that. It's not what is specifically being said, but, after a while, that winds up being the reality. There are only presidents, prime ministers and we say to ourselves that that's reality. That's not what we want. I'm sure that everyone shares our values on gender equality, but television doesn't represent those values.