It's a pleasure for me to talk to you about our workshops on respect. This extraordinary initiative is the result of a joint effort by the union and management parties of Radio-Canada. In 2005, an employee survey was conducted, and we identified three causes of discomfort in Radio-Canada's working environment: respect, work recognition and workload.
We immediately got down to work. We called in Mr. Brun, an individual from the outside, a well-known teacher. He helped us build a program. To introduce that program, we trained 90 individuals, 45 managers and 45 union representatives, who gave the respect workshops. To date, nearly 6,500 of our employees, both anglophone and francophone, have taken those workshops. In fact, we've built 472 workshops.
Yesterday I spoke with Ms. Francine Durocher, one of the CUPE vice-presidents in Montreal. She has worked at Radio-Canada for 38 years, and she alone gave 84 of those respect workshops. We really believe in them. It's a major investment for our business.