That is consistent with recommendations of this committee over the years, too; it's not a new idea. It's something that has been suggested for quite a while.
The problem is that it's a bit of a vocabulary question. By that I mean that no one is going to take away the sovereign capacity of the Minister of Finance to make fiscal decisions. A government can say it is going to provide stable funding and then, because of circumstances that it deems priorities, decide to not do it. The government is sovereign.
So I think the real issue is not just the question of stability but the issue of resources. As I tried to point out in my short presentation, based on committee data that this committee has generated, there's an underinvestment in public broadcasting in Canada.