One of our distinctive features as a public broadcaster is to be present throughout the country and play an active part in the cultural and public life of the communities we serve.
As I said earlier, our goal is to institute an overall strategy for French services focussed around our regional presence and reflection of the regions in our national coverage. The challenge is to interlink strategies and clearly set out our goals and how we intend to meet them.
That's why we have created a Regions Directorate to coordinate our decision-making. In fact, Louis Lalande's first task will be to design our new strategy by this fall.
At the beginning of my opening comments, I also mentioned the multiplatform environment that is posing new challenges, but also offering new opportunities to fulfill our role as public broadcasters.
For the future media and communications world we now see unfolding, we need to trust the wisdom of those who created the Canadian broadcasting system in 1936. Its success rests on a balance between public and private broadcasters, and it has enabled us to preserve our cultural identity.
Public broadcasters must continue to play a central role in this system. The strength of the public system must serve as a bulwark against the loss of cultural identities and the erosion of democracy.
Canadians will still have a fundamental need for access to media that help them understand local, regional, national, and international realities, whether the delivery platform is traditional or new.
Radio-Canada will continue to meet this challenge and offer Canadians a public system that is both strong and relevant to their lives.
That concludes our presentation. We are now available to take your questions. Thank you.