Strangely enough, this circles back to the issue of governance, because I think—and I don't want to turn this into a heavy attack—one of the largest failures of the current president has been in selling the CBC to the country. I think the president of the CBC should be on the hustings. He should be out there telling Canadians why they need to invest more in public broadcasting and what public broadcasting could provide to them. But when your appointment and your reappointment is determined by the government, when you have to go cap in hand to the government every year for that $60 million—It started with the Liberals and now the Conservatives are playing the same game. We give it to you—actually the Conservatives gave it to the CBC for two years—but it's a short leash and it restrains the CBC. I think some of the onus is on the CBC to go out and do this, but it has not unfortunately been making its case to Canadians in nearly a forceful enough way.
On April 24th, 2007. See this statement in context.