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[Technical difficulty--Editor] difference between the CRTC's fund and others. Unlike most government funds, which are part of the budget and are fundamentally based on taxpayers' contributions, this is a CRTC-administered fund, and the monies come from the industry, not directly from taxpayers.
The second distinguishing feature I suppose is that we are an arm's-length independent agency. We cannot and are not directed by government to make decisions. We make them at arm's-length; we're quasi-judicial and we make decisions that are in the public interest independent of government.
On the last point about co-operation or coordination, our quasi-judicial nature by definition means that there's a degree of separation, but we work closely, as much as we can, with government. I sit on a deputy ministerial level coordination committee and we share what information we can. We work closely with ISED and other departments. For example, we work with them to develop the mapping technology to track the progress, and we provide information that the department subsequently makes available on its websites of the projects under way and completed.