Official Languages committee  We are asking for recurrent funding. That is what we need.

Official Languages committee  We hope to start the year without having to go out and get this money from the community.

Official Languages committee  Yes, that is it.

Official Languages committee  Yes, exactly.

Official Languages committee  Our stations are in a predicament; there is not enough staff.

Official Languages committee  It is the same everywhere.

Official Languages committee  —classical music or religious music. Thus, you have to broadcast music that belongs to this 8% category. There is no choice. We asked the CRTC to let us choose the music—other than pop music—that corresponds to the 20% portion. We want to decide what our community wants to hear.

Official Languages committee  This is the case because it is difficult to tell whether a campus radio station only has 2,000 listeners. Let us take Iqaluit for example, with its 600 francophone residents. The radio station has 400 listeners. Are we going to draw a distinction? No, because to us, this radio st

Official Languages committee  No, everyone needs help. We do not have enough to fulfil our mandate.

Official Languages committee  All right.

Official Languages committee  Currently, when the CRTC grants you a licence, you are only allowed to broadcast 80% pop music, 12% country music and the remaining 8% belongs to the third category which includes blues, jazz or—

Official Languages committee  Until we get the results of the review of the Community and Campus Radio Policy, we will have some difficulties. As regards the review, we asked that a portion of the money for developing Canadian content, that the private sector pays to the CRTC, be put into the Community Radio

Official Languages committee  The situation is different in New Brunswick, because the retention rate is nevertheless quite high compared to the rest of Canada. Elsewhere in Canada, I think that retention remains a problem, because young people want to complete their classes and move on.

Official Languages committee  I am unsure if you are talking about the community radio program as part of the Official Languages Support Programs—

Official Languages committee  We are looking at $30,000.