Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Lacroix, it's nice to see you again. I thank you and your colleagues for being here today.
I have a couple of comments, and mine will be a shotgun approach of a few questions. But I'll say off the top that I do appreciate the work that CBC and Radio-Canada do, particularly when it comes to minority language communities, in presenting a national platform for news so that we don't live in silos in our respective provinces across the country. I think one of your strengths is bringing news from different regions to different parts of the country. I see that in my home province of New Brunswick. I'm also aware of the good work you do in bringing news from western Canada right into Quebec. I don't believe your competitors do that nearly as well.
Turning to a couple of questions, I'm curious to get your thinking around the mandate to connect Canadians, but at the same time you obviously have commercial pressures when it comes to programming. How do you determine which programs are going to make it to air when it comes to looking at changes and cutting them? For example, Arctic Air is one that I have recently noticed is being phased out or cut, but for a while it seemed to be getting some pretty good promotion on your network. That's just one example. I'm curious how your commercial mandate meshes with the need to connect Canadians globally.