We had the same problem six or seven years ago, even before the sponsorship scandal.
The only time it worked was when we went knocking on the door of what was then Communication Canada. We asked for equal treatment. Departments were running three-week ad campaigns on all radio stations, including Mix-Media and others. Three weeks later, they ran the same campaign, but only on our radio stations. So they had set aside $500,000 and were using that money to redo the campaign on our radio stations to get greater visibility. In addition, that is the only year that radio stations received approximately $200,000 in ad placements.
Yes, there were problems because of the sponsorship scandal; yes, there were the elections and the minority government, but the problems were there before.
We're still here. I have been fighting for seven years to say that there's a problem. There's a very simple solution. We have to simply agree to implement it.