Well, to answer your question, I will repeat...
We talked about what happened in 1999, but in 1998, the commission held a hearing on some structural aspect—and I too was not part of the commission at the time. Producers lobbied the commission to promote drama series. The commission then created priority hours and decided that eight hours per week would be considered “priority”.
In 1998 and 1999, the commission's rationale was the following: investing in dramatic programming and documentaries would be very profitable and would likely yield a greater return than previously.
Ten years later, we realize this did not exactly come to pass. It was not a failure from day one; things were stable for some time. In fact, recently we have noticed a marked increase in spending for foreign shows by English-language broadcasters.
So now producers are challenging the priority-based system. This upcoming summer and fall, we are going to try and see if we should not... Indeed, television broadcasters and producers are telling us to return to the investment-based system, to spending on Canadian shows based on a percentage of revenue.