Of some twenty-odd public broadcasters in the western world, Canada is 17th in terms of its funding for public broadcasters. I think the key question is, do we consider CBC/Radio-Canada to be a public service, or do we consider that it has to play by the rules of the private market?
CBC was created as a public service and created to serve Canadians as citizens rather than as consumers. You've introduced a consumer and a market logic concerning how a public service should operate.
My conception of public broadcasting is that this is a public asset that should be considered as such, that it is now a public asset that is in deep financial problems because of a loss of what was a revenue source, and that the government refuses to acknowledge that this is damaging a public asset.