Mr. Chair, first I would like to reply to my colleague's remark, when he said that I cannot have it both ways. In fact, it is possible to have it both ways. All I said, for the record again, was that public television needs to have good ratings.
When I talk about 15 million viewers watching Canada: A People's History , Le Canada: une histoire populaire , this is what I mean by good ratings. Nobody here will make me say that public television, where I and my colleague worked on serials or miniseries, is not useful in a country like Canada.
To come back to lieutenant-governors, it is obvious that as we are getting ready to celebrate the centennials of Alberta and Saskatchewan with much pleasure and joy, increased investments are necessary. On the other hand, another grant program came into force on April 1, 2004. In an edifying way, it gives lieutenant-governors more flexibility in spending public money as the Queen's representatives.
Having said that, I think that, unless the opposition is willing to say the opposite, and then it should say the same thing to each lieutenant-governor in each region, lieutenant-governors play a role which is very--