In the report we have, it says:
With respect to regional and local programming, the Task Force noted that budget reallocations had begun to degrade the CBC’s capacity to reflect the regions to themselves and one another.
I'd noticed this in my area particularly, which is Thunder Bay—Rainy River and northwestern Ontario, and the parallel exists for northeastern Ontario. We're talking about a riding that goes from Minnesota to Hudson Bay and James Bay, from Lake Superior to the Manitoba border, has two time zones, and is larger than France. All of northern Ontario is larger than many European countries put together. It's huge. I can see the physical evidence—the reduction in staff, the vacant offices, and those types of things—from the local bureau, and when I hear about that, I wonder if it is a trend that we should be concerned about: the reduction, the diminishing, the phasing-out of those kinds of operations. It seems to be an incremental thing whereby you don't hire a regional manager and you don't replace a reporter. It's done by attrition and other means, but certainly it becomes something that's plainly evident.