We're all talking about the new technologies that are going to be coming in. I think the CBC has been studying how it's going to respond to all these new technologies, how it disseminates the content that it wants to provide, and what it wants to reflect of what's going on in this country.
I think this committee and the government and all parties in the government are going to have to have a big say in defining what exactly the CBC is supposed to be. That mandate, which was created 70 years ago in the 1930s when radio was just becoming a technology worth disseminating and regulating, is going to have to change. So I think there's going to be a big study in the next few years about what the future of the CBC and of new media is going to be, and I think there has to be space for all of us in that mosaic.
Obviously, more funding is going to help the CBC make the decisions that we all find more agreeable, but as Mr. Chong was saying, there's a growing audience for radio, and I think we have to take that seriously and not.... The reason we're all here and we're all fighting over these scraps being handed to us is that we know radio is important. It has a captive audience, and we all want a share of that audience. When we talk about new media, we're talking about competing against a global society. We're competing against content from the BBC, Radio France, and Deutsche Welle. We're competing against all these kinds of things.
I'll leave it at that and let somebody more articulate take over.