That's not entirely what I said. Pardon me if I expressed myself poorly. I said that, as an affiliate, we are able to carry out the local programming mandate, better than Radio-Canada has done in the past. That's our business, that is our purpose. We serve the regions exclusively. We don't have any television stations in the major centres; we only have television stations in markets of 150,000 to 200,000 persons. The local programming and information mandate that CBC/Radio-Canada confers on us is thus clearly central to our business.
The difficulty we've been having for a number of years is that the agreements with Radio-Canada are increasingly hard to negotiate, and funding has been reduced. There's considerable pressure on us to cut services. The fact is that we have fewer resources than we did five years ago. The last negotiations that we had with CBC/Radio-Canada resulted in a 30% reduction in revenue for us.
Radio-Canada is faced with two choices: either it takes back its local stations and exploits them, or it hands them over to affiliated stations, while providing them with the necessary resources. I don't think there is any other solution apart from those two options.