Official Languages committee  Thank you for your questions.

Official Languages committee  No. The answer to that is that it totally goes against the model we have. You can't have two people.... For example, if Coke is one of our sponsors, you couldn't have them selling Pepsi. You'd get that conflict.

Official Languages committee  You know, I don't want to negotiate in public. I think that—

Official Languages committee  I put the proposal on the table.

Official Languages committee  No, I put the proposal on the table, and it's something we can discuss. We can start it as a discussion with SRC, but I can tell you that any kind of notion where SRC would be selling commercial time is an issue.

Official Languages committee  That's good news. It never really closed. As I said, we go back to our first proposal, which we thought was fair, and we've come a long way.

Official Languages committee  In fact, if you have cable or satellite, which many of them do have, we don't need to do it. It's there already. CTV is carried on satellite and cable, so it's there. The issue is how many anglophone people there are who only receive their signals over the air. It's exactly the same issue that we have on the francophone side of the equation.

Official Languages committee  It is probably better to ask them. They will give you an estimation.

Official Languages committee  That I can't estimate at this point in time. This is new. It's something that will have to be determined. But it won't be as efficient as what we first put on the table; there will be a cost.

Official Languages committee  And that, once again, is why our original proposal is still the most efficient proposal.

Official Languages committee  We didn't get that far, because they passed on it out of hand. So we would have to sit down with them and determine the value of that.

Official Languages committee  I can't really.

Official Languages committee  We estimated their rate cards. I don't think it would be beneficial or helpful to the committee, because it would simply be a guess.

Official Languages committee  It's going to be a case of all of us working together, as I said to the Senate committee, because we're going to need your help. This is a situation where every negotiation is a commercial negotiation. There's a social responsibility overriding this that we're all focused on. But at the end of the day, we have to convince every small cable company to come onboard with us.

Official Languages committee  I think VANOC may be a little bit in arrears, because we have made a push.