Good Lord! The issues are major right now. In fact, I think it's very much an economic issue. Everything is a matter of balance. What we are apprehensive about is that Radio-Canada's mandate has changed as a result of economic issues. I am more familiar with the Quebec situation.
General-interest television has of course lost viewers, even though the number of viewers is still large. Advertising revenues have declined and, in my opinion, will continue to do so. This isn't just a problem with general-interest television networks, it will also be a problem concerning specialty channels, because people increasingly have digital recorders and cut out commercials. People who do on-air advertising will increasingly opt for other media or other ways of doing advertising. So there is a risk that advertising revenues will decline, not only for general-interest television networks, but also for specialty channels, in favour of other media, perhaps more the Internet, hence the need for any broadcaster, whether public or private, to look as well to the Internet, to speciality channels, to ensure it has a multiple-stream revenue base.
In the circumstances, what we fear is that there is always a link. We've seen the turnaround at Radio-Canada. There used to be a lot less advertising time, choices were... Now a lot of choices are economically viable choices. By that I don't mean that a high-quality program doesn't necessarily have an audience, but sometimes there is a direct link. Programs, high-cost series have been cut because revenues were not sufficient. That's our fear. We fear that economic logic will put enormous pressure on Radio-Canada. Pressure has already been applied, at the Canadian Television Fund, among others, where it is considered unsatisfactory, in any case by the private broadcasters, that Radio-Canada can receive 37% of the Canadian Television Fund's budget. It is pressures of this kind that make us fear and dread that pressure will ultimately change CBC/Radio-Canada's mandate. That's our fear about that, and that's what we dread.