Thank you very much.
Mr. Lacroix, in your report you talk about local broadcasting quite a bit. I think Canadians have concerns about it, as I do in my constituency. I think you know you've operated under a licence in Peterborough with an agreement through Corus with CHEX-TV. There are concerns that CBC programming could be removed from the two Corus stations if an agreement isn't reached.
But I think you would find, in a market like Peterborough, that programming like The National and a lot of your other programming would typically get better ratings than it gets in other markets, where you don't have a local network. It seems that the CBC is recognizing that in this document.
Is this a change in focus for the CBC? It seemed that CBC was kind of withdrawing into big centres and becoming.... I think what makes local news work is that people want to see themselves or see people they know, or to see their community in the news. But in a lot of ways, it seemed that CBC was withdrawing in some of these communities.