Mr. Angus, fundamentally the government has to ensure that a strong public broadcaster is providing the service and the programming that Canadians want of a national public broadcaster.
First, I'll have to establish what the mandate is, what the service is, and on what platforms the CBC should be doing its work. Once we establish the mandate, the services, and the platforms, then and only then can we establish its resource needs. To do that in the opposite way, to me, is not the responsible way to do it, to give Canadians the opportunity to say this is what we want our public broadcaster, in both languages, to provide to us.
We believe Canada needs and should have a national public broadcaster. We want to make sure that the service being provided by the CBC/Radio-Canada is the service that is wanted by all Canadians.