Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good morning, Mr. Thomas. Welcome to the committee.
Before I ask my first question, I just want to say that I thought what Mr. Del Mastro said was interesting. According to him, when we try to evade a question, it means that we are not comfortable with it. I hope that he will pass on the message to the President of the Treasury Board who has been refusing to answer our questions for 130 days now.
I want to defend CBC, since some pretty harsh things were said earlier about its cooperation. We are generally in favour of increased transparency regarding CBC, as well as the federal government. We have reservations about the journalistic activities, as we told the previous witness.
Nevertheless, do you not find the fact that CBC, as of 2007....