Historically, the growth revenue on the broadcast distribution side was actually 9% last year, but it has averaged about 7% on an annual basis. We budget very conservatively. We only strike a program budget that's based on the actual revenue that we know we had from the BDUs in the previous year. Generally, we have seen that there's been that increase, so what we do at a certain point in time at the board--when we know the revenue has been higher than we budgeted, because we don't want to overspend revenue we don't have--is to reallocate that funding to programming.
I think your question also is.... Your motion, as I understand it, referred to only the CBC. Our concern is the entire spectrum of what might be considered placed in the public side, because we know there's already a shortfall there if you look at the other special initiatives that are directives as per the contribution agreement. We're assuming those would all be put in the public pot, so we're starting with a shortfall to begin with, and then if it were to be indexed and it would only be the CBC, the impact, not just on the educational broadcasters but all of those other very important programs, like the one Stéphane mentioned--French language outside Quebec, the aboriginal fund, etc.--would certainly take a very large hit. That is our concern.
I think the fund has always taken a view that our job is to provide support to programming according to our mandate, right across the country of Canada in all those different factions. So I think our worry on the indexing motion would be its limit to only the CBC at this point in time. Certainly there would be an impact on the other activities that would be, we suspect, funded under that public sector pot of money.