We were writing the final chapter of the report and the recommendation about the time the referendum was held. We released the report in January; I believe the referendum was in November. In the report, we made the recommendation to close down Ottawa and move the CBC to Montreal. In particular, we argued for a much more robust bilingual set of program exchanges and development of new types of content, culturally, in news, in documentary production, and so on. We argued for a special envelope to be set aside. My understanding is that the CBC has not been able to pursue its exercise in bilingual television reporting.
For example, shows like the very popular Bon Cop, Bad Cop are not being shown on the CBC with subtitles as necessary. We had hoped for a programming zone experimentally set aside for that within the CBC, but not all of this was possible within the time. We also were quite concerned whether there was the perceived editorial independence of the CBC, both in SRC and in CBC English networks, in the coverage of the referendum campaign at the time. Subsequently, my thinking has evolved quite considerably on how you better protect editorial independence and impartiality at the CBC. I have reluctantly come to the idea that the current system of the ombudsperson and their system for monitoring within the corporation is no longer sustainable in today's political environment.