There is a need to get back to work, so we're trying to find a happy balance between letting people absorb the deal and ask all their questions about the deal and then voting on it.

It has been the experience at the CBC for deals to be concluded in Ottawa with both the federal mediators there, but also key members of the CBC management team who for the most part have not been present at the bargaining at all.

You do feel like a child and the grown-ups won't let you in. There is not a tradition of the union sharing information at board meetings.

It's status quo, I don't see anything that changes. It's shocking that, after six weeks, you would be happy with just letting it go for as long as it takes to get a deal.

It's unusually complicated and it's all about the hockey.

They don't want to put stuff on the air that's sub-par. They don't know what hurdles they need to overcome to get a National on the air until they get in . . . and find out.