Official Languages committee  On your cable bill, when you pay, let's say $50 a month, $0 of that amount comes to CBC, to Radio-Canada, to CTV, or to TVA—$0. That's because the broadcaster, the distribution unit—Bell, or whatever in your environment—takes our signal off air and sends it back to you in its pac

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. It's not important. It's not significant at all, but we are extremely aware—

Official Languages committee  Absolutely, because, madam, as you know, the model for funding should be—

Official Languages committee  Sorry?

Official Languages committee  What we have at CBC Radio-Canada is a hybrid model. For years, government has said and the CRTC has said that if you want to continue, we're not going to provide you with more dollars, but if you want to continue delivering new services to Canadians, then you have to do it on you

Official Languages committee  The act.

Official Languages committee  The words are exactly that: “de façon équivalente”. It's not “equal” but “équivalente”.

Official Languages committee  It is the DNA of your public broadcaster. We deliver our services in both official languages across the country, from one ocean to the other and up to the top, and it's so embedded in us that now we are more and more one corporation. We share services in the regions, at the netwo

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. We share their expertise.

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. The regions means in every—

Official Languages committee  Yes, it’s across the country because we have two levels. We have a network program that goes across the country, and then we have programs that come from the different regions where we are present, and in there we have sometimes CBC and Radio-Canada and, more and more, CBC and Ra

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  We look at the services we have to render to Canadians, and we then look at how we best serve them, what services we must fund. We look at the resources we have and we allocate it based on one corporation. That's what we do.

Official Languages committee  It shakes down—

Official Languages committee  Ball park? Right now, close to 55% of our budget goes to CBC and about 45% goes to Radio-Canada.... Not on budget, I should say, but on the government's attributions. We just looked at this right now, but in the last 15 or 16 years it will vary between 60:40 to 55:45. Right now