The more financial pressure Radio-Canada is under, the more it transmits that pressure onto us. It's the principle of the bigger versus smaller. It's a little like fishing: the big fish eat the small fish.
Earlier I told you that we were renewing the agreements every five years. In terms of revenue, the present agreement is 30% lower than what we had five years ago. What will it be when we renew in 2010?
In my view, there are two possible options: either Radio-Canada decides to take back its affiliates, by buying them back or otherwise, and to produce its content itself, to take care of that, to set up in Rouyn-Noranda, in Rivière-du-Loup or elsewhere and to serve the population; or it recognizes that we are playing an important role and decides to work with us to improve that role. There are little things that we can do.
In Abitibi, there is an infrastructure in which we have invested millions of dollars worth of equipment. So we should be able to provide images of that market to Radio-Canada in Montreal. However, to cover the International Film Festival in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Radio-Canada uses its own directors. That makes no sense, since we have the necessary infrastructure as an affiliate. We should be able to provide that service. We could save money together. The public and private sectors are not prohibited from working together. There's nothing in the act that says that can't be done. I think we have an interest in doing more of that.