Paul Martin made extensive cuts to CBC in 1996, and we have not recovered. We haven't even come close. We have the Canadian Television Fund, with its 37% for Radio-Canada now, and we have a $60-million top-up, maybe this year or maybe next year. We have two years in now, but it's always year to year. In fact, up to budget day, we have CBC phoning asking if we know whether they'll get their top-up or not. There's that sense of instability. Has this little patchwork of programs gone anywhere to recouping the terrible loss that we saw after those 1996 cuts?
On April 11th, 2007. See this statement in context.