The division of the funding into two sections aside, there are the recommendations from the CRTC report last year. It recommended that all the special initiatives that we support, like French-language productions outside Quebec, productions in aboriginal languages, project development and assistance for dubbing and subtitling, adding up to about $23 million, be part of the public-sector fund. Looking at last year, we calculated that the shortfall in the public-sector fund would now be in the order of $7 million. So costs would rise to $127 million, with available funding of $120 million.
The fear has to do with the fact that we do not know what the government contribution will be. What we do know, however, is that in recent years, revenues from BDUs, like cable and satellite companies, have increased by an average of 7% per year. If you project for a certain number of years, private-sector fund revenues would be indexed, whereas, at the moment, there is no guarantee that the revenues in the public-sector fund would be.