I was the Director of Regional Production for a number of years. In Moncton, for instance, I often said that we had to find some way of resolving that problem.
At the same time, the demographics in French Canada are problematic. There are about three million people living in Montreal, and that's a fact. In Montreal, there is a large concentration of artists, actors, creators and independent production houses. That is part of the francophone demographic reality.
The public broadcaster's role is to share that wealth and redistribute the products of that creativity across the regions. Based on the numbers, we invest much more in the regions than their actual demographic weight would require. I'm not trying to suggest that we should be doing anything else. I'm simply saying that is what we do. And there is no doubt that leads to a lot of complexity that is very hard to manage.
When I go to Caraquet, people say that in Moncton, all they ever talk about is Moncton. And it's true that on Moncton radio programs, they tend to talk more often about Moncton than they do about Caraquet or Bathurst. In Nova Scotia, they say that people don't talk enough about them in New Brunswick. This is something that we are trying to manage. For example, we have increased the number of news stories from across the country that are part of our major radio newscasts. Over the last five years, there has been a big increase. On the television side, there are quite a few as well. Louis can probably provide figures in that regard.
However, I agree that we must improve our performance in that respect. At the same time, you have to recognize that French Canada has a particular characteristic, and that is that many Acadian actors live in Montreal and pursue a career there.