I'll start by answering your second question. There are a total of 140 community radio stations, both Francophone and Anglophone, and that figure includes campus radio stations. Therefore, the proposed initiative would cost $4.2 million annually.
As for your first question, namely how we arrived at this $30,000 figure, I concur with the position not only of my Arc du Canada colleagues and its English counterpart, the NCRA, but also of my Quebec colleagues at ARC. We felt that this level of funding would be sufficient to hire a permanent employee, and pay for a computer as well as telephone and Internet services. It truly represents the basics. Some funding is made available for infrastructure. Some radio stations continue to operate today with nothing more than computers. Purchasing a computer opens the door to streaming music. That works for certain communities. It's already a good starting point, but it doesn't cover the salary of an employee who tries to generate revenues, forge partnerships with the community, and so forth. We felt that a base amount of $30,000 would be enough to allow the station to hire an employee and expand its operations.