It is fairly straightforward.
Again, I was impressed with Mr. von Finckenstein's interpretation that you would look at the act and say this needs to be clarified, because we're hearing many different opinions, and if we get a court opinion, we'll certainly know.
Mr. Morrison, I wanted to ask you...again, there seems to be this mistaken impression from some of my new colleagues on the Conservative side that there's this money being spent on public broadcasters while the plucky privates are having to go out and struggle to raise their own money. Yet we know there are hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into private broadcasting. These aren't independent entities. They're actually constructions of the state because we give them special tax benefits, we give them access to media funds, and we set up all manner of funding in order to get them to meet their base requirements. In exchange for a broadcast licence, they're supposed to have a little bit of Canadian content and a little bit of local content. And yet, when we go to the CRTC to find out if any of these private broadcasters are meeting any of their obligations under any of their licences, they routinely tell the CRTC that they're not giving out any of that information, and the CRTC rejects every single access to information request on whether any of these broadcasters are meeting their obligations, which they owe the taxpayer because we support them.
Do you think, Mr. Morrison, that we need a better system of accountability to ensure, with these private entities who are receiving public funds and public subsidies, that the taxpayer should be able to know whether they're actually meeting their obligations for Canadian content and for local television?