Thank you.
Mr. Chair, I agree with Mr. Coderre that this motion is premature. I want to see what the minister's response is.
Quite aside from that, my major concern is a commitment to indexing here. We've already taken a very significant step in our CBC mandate report to recommend stable multi-year funding that is indexed. Now we're becoming more specific, and we're saying that when it comes to the CTF, we want to apply indexing there, and now we're starting to see indexing as the norm without taking into account the fiscal capacity of the government at any given time. I don't want to see us go down that road, quite frankly.
The other concern I have about this motion is that I'm still not quite sure what is intended. If you actually read it, it talks about the long-term funding—presumably that CBC is contributing—and then it talks about it being indexed to private sector increases, whatever that might be, so that 37% of the total funding is always available to CBC. Now, 37% of total funding is a figure, but the indexing is on the whole fund. So I'm wondering where Ms. Mourani is going with that, because right now, in my mind, the motion is not clear. It's ambiguous, and it could be read a number of different ways. I'm reading it one way, and I think she's reading it another way, but both of those interpretations, I think, seem to be valid.
If we are really going to consider this, I think she needs to be a little more specific and put in a little more thought so that the motion is specific and explicit as to what it means. Secondly, I would encourage her to wait until we know what the minister's response is.
We have two responses. There's not only the CRTC decision, but there's also always the CBC mandate review, which has 53 recommendations and which is coming shortly. And that's when we'll know whether there's any prospect of there being a long-term, multi-year stable funding formula that might be negotiated down the road.