The problem is two messages. We have a lot of supporters. We encouraged them recently to write to their members of Parliament--I guess you would be included in that--with their concerns about Mr. Del Mastro's comment. What we found was that when those people lived in Conservative ridings, they got a response from their Conservative members of Parliament, and with a few exceptions--Chuck Strahl, for example, and Tony Clement--they wrote their own letters. Mostly there was a common theme to the letters. I had intended to bring it with me today, but I only have it on my iPhone, and I turned it off in respect of this thing. Basically, the message that came out, I assume from some kid in the Prime Minister's Office, and that was then the base for the Conservative responses, contradicts the concern you have, because the essence of it was, “We support public broadcasting very strongly.” The Liberals went after public broadcasting. The letter actually said that the NDP and the Bloc had voted against the CBC budget every year since the Conservatives came to power.
So in my judgment there was one thing that was true in there, and that is, under Mr. Chrétien's leadership, the CBC suffered greatly. But on the comment about the Bloc and the NDP, you weren't voting against the CBC any more than you were voting against the Governor General's salary, or old age pensions, or anything.