Thank you, Chair. I'll try to do better.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here, and specifically Mr. Rabinovitch, in appreciation for your service to CBC/Radio-Canada for so many years as you move on to other challenges.
I want to pick up on something that you raised very early in your statement this morning, the whole question of micro-management and particularly the concern about where programming is made and by whom. That's something I think the committee has heard about significantly--regional programming, regional production, and the importance of that to many communities. We've heard it in the context of the phrase “Montrealization” of some productions. We're heard concerns about programs like Little Mosque on the Prairie that represent the prairies being filmed in Hamilton.
I wonder if you could comment a little bit more on that issue from your perspective and the problems you see with that.