Since I am an MP it is easy for me to understand why you have such expenses. The MPs only have four or five employees in their offices. Certain members around this table spend $400,000 a year for a four-person office. So your figures are reasonable since you have 170 employees.
I'd like to get to your mandate of promotion of linguistic duality, which is nearly one third of your budget. My colleague Monsieur Godin mentioned Radio-Canada. We're very concerned about the CBC's cuts and the CBC's mandate also to help you promote linguistic duality. Monsieur Lacroix mentioned that the revenue shortfall might put the CBC's mandate in jeopardy and that there should be a national dialogue about this with Canadians.
Would you be willing to participate in that dialogue with Monsieur Lacroix to discuss the CBC's role in promoting linguistic duality?