What with dinners and comp tickets, I'm going to get examined by some kind of parliamentary watchdog.
By the way, anyone else on the committee is invited for dinner or tickets any time they're passing through.
Speaking on behalf of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and speaking for classical music, I think most of those things would cover the topics very well indeed.
On the question of transparency, this is the word we keep coming back to, and accountability is terribly important. The fact that there is a vice-president for radio and television seems to me to be quite ludicrous. It's rather like inviting a person to be music director of the opera, the choirs in the city, and the orchestra. It's inappropriate for the milieu. CBC should have a head of Radio 2 who is answerable to the heritage committee, who at least must turn up and answer your questions. At the present time it's totally obfuscated. We have no idea who is making the primary decisions--except anecdotally through evidence from members of the CBC board.
So transparency is the name of the game, I think.
I thank you, Mr. Fast, for your list of actions.