What I had written, Mr. Chairman, at your suggestion, is “that the committee recommend that the Minister of Heritage share with CBC/SRC management its concerns vis-à-vis significant structural changes before the proposed CBC/SRC mandate review is completed.” That's the essence of what it is.
If I may say so, although it may not be necessary, I have a couple of disagreements with some of the comments Mr. Abbott was making. I don't have a problem, whether we ask the minister or not. She may or may not wish to, but if she doesn't, then we can express it ourselves.
It isn't the government, necessarily, that sets the mandate. Parliament will set mandates quite often, by legislation, as is the case with CBC. So we have to be careful here. And Parliament has a role in reviewing mandates and in criticizing government actions in reviewing mandates. So it's not just government, with all due respect.