Thank you very much for being here today.
I will admit that I am not nearly as conversant as I might be with exactly how the National Film Board works, and perhaps that's true of some of the other members of this panel.
You mentioned a number of times the issue of funding for the National Film Board, and I respect that, but help us to understand. You have a process—anybody has a process—of someone coming up with an idea, somebody deciding to produce it, looking for the assets to be able to produce it, be it a short film, a documentary or a feature film, the hiring of the crews, the paying of the crews, the editing and so on and so forth, and getting it to the other end where it's being advertised and distributed and where, hopefully, revenue is coming back in. So we have a vague understanding of what that growth process is.
Can you give us an idea of the funds the National Film Board has from the federal government, how they are spent? Describe for us the day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year functions that the National Film Board actually undertakes, say, in comparison with something like the Canadian Television Fund, which we do understand, or things of that nature.