The idea of allowing other public television networks to get money is obviously something that we all agreed to fight for. The intent of Ms. Mourani's motion, unless I'm misreading it, has nothing to do with the split per se, what size envelope goes to public or to private. It may be 50-50, or 60-40, who knows? But we can't take for granted that whatever decisions are made about this are not going to mean, okay, so now CBC is going to get 32%, and we're going to give APTN so much and so much. What she's saying is that she wants to make sure it's stated that you don't touch that envelope; whatever else you may do, you don't touch that envelope.
Of course, I think we could make another motion that speaks clearly to the issue of the public-private split and that we want to make sure the other public sector gets its TVO, TFO, APTN, all of the other stations that depend on this money in the Canadian television fund. We could put a second amendment that speaks to that, but I think this one is actually saying, do not decrease the 37% envelope. We can't take it for granted that it would not be decreased. She is just trying to make sure you were warned. But I think we may want to do another motion with regard to public funding, that we want to ensure that everyone gets it.
The issue is extremely complex. What the divisions are going to be, we don't know, but we don't want to respond after the fact either. So it could be important, as we're putting this forward, to have another motion that says, as for the rest of the public funding, this is how we would like to see it happen.