Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
It's interesting. You come with 29 years of experience at CBC. You've spent nine years in the private sector working for a not-for-profit, and now you're coming back, after having participated in this renewal mandate panel with the minister. You've mentioned a few things about that, but you said the report is going to the minister.
You've referenced a few times that you want to hear the Canadian story and you want to hear what Canadians have to say about the CBC, so I'm going to go back to the question of bonuses, because I think this is where many Canadians see a massive disconnect between $18 million paid out to executives and managers and the challenges that Canadians are facing; they are seeing just a massive disconnect that exists there.
I think my question.... I'd really like to nail this down, because it comes down to the issue of trust and making sure Canadians can, in fact, trust the leadership at the CBC, an organization they largely pay for one way or another through a $1.4-billion subsidy, and trust that it's not going to go to bonuses for executives in downtown office towers who have very little to do with telling the Canadian story.
Again, I want to nail this down. You talked about reviewing the bonus structure. You're hearing from elected members of Parliament—and this is not unique to Conservatives, although maybe our solutions are a little different—that we want to nail down specifically that bonuses need to be a thing of the past, certainly as they're structured today at the CBC.
Is that something you can commit to before this committee?