Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the introduction.
Mr. Lacroix, thank you for your testimony thus far, though a few of the comments that you made I'm not sure I can completely agree with, based on the information that I've received. In terms of government dollars allocated to the CBC, it's my information that there weren't cuts in relation to the 2007-08 and 2008-09 years, and that actually when we really think about any significant cut to the CBC, we really have to go back to the mid-nineties to look at the 4,000 jobs cut back in 1995. Of course that was under a different government, which I won't name.
I'll move on, though, to the topic of something that has made the news somewhat recently. It's something that I do have some concern about because of course we are going through some tougher economic times at the moment, as everyone is well aware. Your network is covering it quite well, I'll admit.
There have been some reports about how the CBC has made some difficult choices in terms of various cuts. For instance, I read that CBC has cut some of its bonuses to its executives by about 50%. Would you be able to tell the committee how much money was still paid out to executives? Fifty per cent of the previous amount: what was that amount?