Information & Ethics committee  No, they don't. CBC local news, in my opinion, is barely existing. At the best of times, they reach half a million viewers. When I was producing local news in Toronto, we had 325,000 viewers—just in Toronto.

Information & Ethics committee  No, they're not competing on an even playing field, but allow me to go back a step. There is nothing wrong with competition, and I don't want to give the impression that there is. Competition is a good thing. It makes the CBC better. It makes Quebecor better. It makes CTV and Glo

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it doesn't tell the story. As Mr. Carmichael said, everyone who is part of business knows there are a whole lot of things you can hide within an audited statement.

Information & Ethics committee  I feel exactly the same way as I feel about the CBC.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, of course.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  I believe it can be. Do I believe it is in this case? No.

Information & Ethics committee  That's true. Luckily for CBC, it's not my decision.

Information & Ethics committee  I think if the documents go to the Information Commissioner, and the CBC has the ability to explain that information beforehand, I don't see why the Information Commissioner can't make a proper decision.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, and as you point out, the CRA does exist, and all corporations have to deal with it. As I said, whenever you take money from the government for a program, those programs are audited and those audits do go to the government. Plus, everyone helps pay for the CBC, and fr

Information & Ethics committee  I would suggest things like future plans and future shows that are on the books that they might want to put into production. That's no one's business, and frankly there is not a lot of money being spent on that. No one has to know about things the CBC is going to look into journa

Information & Ethics committee  I have no disagreement. I think that is the case. Having met with the former head of CBC English last week, one of the things he pointed out was the empire of the national news, which since 1985 has done its darndest to take money away from local news. Local news has suffered t

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I am.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, again, it's strictly supposition. I don't know specifically why they're doing it. I would say it's partially politically motivated, based on the content in their newspapers and on their television channel. It seems to me they have a specific political bent, which is quite