Thank you very much for coming today, and thank you for presenting us this five-year plan.
Three years ago this committee, with all party support, made a series of recommendations in order to ensure that CBC/Radio-Canada fulfills its mandate to the Canadian people. One of those recommendations was a longer-term commitment between CBC and the Government of Canada in the order of a five-year plan so that we would have stability and long-term planning. I don't know what happened in the meantime, but the government seems to have fallen offside with that commitment. So you've gone ahead, basically it seems, on your own to deliver to Canadians a plan, a vision, so that we can say where we're going to be.
You mentioned the need for stability in financial funding. How crucial is it, and how possible is it to maintain this plan at the current rate of financing you have?