Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Ms. Bertrand et Mr. Lacroix, thank you very much for being with us this morning. It is greatly appreciated.
As you are a public broadcaster, the majority of your funding comes out of the pockets of taxpayers—not all of it, as is often implied, but a lion's share. The private broadcasters also receive a share of public funding in some form or another. However, the fact is you are the public broadcaster. For parliamentarians, for taxpayers and for the people, you have a higher level of accountability than the average private business in this country.
However, it is important to understand the environment in which we find ourselves. Your mission, your conditions of licence and your general mandate are also quite different from those of the private broadcasters. Could you, in one minute, tell us what your specific mandates are? What is the special nature of the CBC? What are the conditions and requirements imposed upon you that result in your mission and mandate being different from those of the others?