Let me say that my first involvement with CBC was my first board meeting in Vancouver at the beginning of May. This is a very fine group of people who are representing this country and who are giving of their time, at the board level, to provide the direction to senior management. We have representation all across the country right now. I was very pleased to see how everybody worked together. We also had all the senior management team at that meeting.
There's a very open dialogue going on right now within CBC. The senior management is talking very comfortably with each other. As you know, there has been a history of fragmentation within CBC. The effort by senior management is to work as one organization, very cohesively, sharing resources and sharing ideas.
The interface between CBC English language radio with CBC English language TV is very, very exciting. We have a huge source of creativity. Why do we have to limit that expertise to the radio domain when it can trickle over and be available to our people in English language television?
Similarly, you have Radio-Canada, which, as you know, has been integrated under one individual, Mr. Sylvain Lafrance. He has moved Radio-Canada into one integrated organization. But again, they talk very cooperatively with the English language TV service and the English language radio service.
I think a lot of progress has been made. The problem, as I see it, is getting down to the coal face, which are the announcers, the technical people, and making sure that everybody buys into CBC/Radio-Canada as one organization moving in one direction to fulfill the mandate, which is to create this rambunctious democracy and get people to really feel passionate about what's going on in this country.