Mr. Pomerleau, I would just like to correct one comment you made, if you don't mind. I did not come before the committee today to ask you for additional funding. I would remind you that we have a mandate that is very different from the mandate of the other broadcasters who have sat in these chairs before you over the past 10 days. They told you how their economic model was no longer working. Our own economic model is not working either, but what I'm driving at here is that the solutions that you are alluding to are the same as those for the private broadcasters that you have met with, namely local programming, the Media Fund and the infamous fee-for-carriage. You have heard this message for 10 days now.
Today, CBC/Radio-Canada is telling you this: if you want us to continue offering services to Canadians, do not exclude us from these funds. Just because we were allocated $1.1 billion, that does not mean that we are able to provide all the services that you are asking us to provide under the Broadcasting Act. This is the message I am trying to convey to you. That is why, on the first page of my brief, I said that I want you to understand the range of our services, the trouble we are having providing these services to Canadians and the importance of the memorandum of understanding as well as conversations about the MOU. We want Canadians to understand our services and we want to meet their expectations.