If we want to speak of music, our prime intervention in the area of music is regulating radio stations—approving, licensing and renewing radio stations. Radio stations contribute to the system by various means. They play Canadian content, so there's actually making that content available to Canadians. Essentially it's a marketing vehicle for Canadian content. They also contribute a percentage of their revenue toward the actual development, marketing and creation of new content, new artists being supported through that route. Artists who have a certain success in Canada are being brought to international stages. Some of their contributions go to those objectives.
Canadian content development monies do go to support spoken word programming, and news and information stations are certainly contributing toward Canada's democracy also.