Since we became government, we've invested over a billion dollars a year. We're into our sixth year. There is, of course, other funding the CBC gets. For example, the Canada Media Fund, the Local Programming Improvement Fund, government advertising, and other sources. There is a lot of money going there. The government, as well as opposition parties and all Canadians, wants to know that the money is well spent. It's easy to defend that money if they think it's being well spent.
The reverse is also true. It's very easy to be attacked on it, especially by those Canadians who look at it and ask why they're spending all this money. For some folks, a billion dollars a year is still a lot of money. For some folks, it's pocket change in conversation in Ottawa. But that's a lot of money. Don't you think the government also needs to be able to look at it and determine the value we're getting versus the money being spent?