I share your opinion. We believe Radio-Canada has all the tools it needs to carry out its mandate, except for substantial additional funding. We do not believe that it is a ratings- or mandate-related issue. There is a real problem on the CBC side.
On the CBC side, when I hear that they're going to cancel a show because there are only 500,000 or 600,000 people watching it and there are two million Canadians watching American Idol, I don't think that's an excuse. When that show was produced, the artists of English Canada
or of Quebec and French Canada.
had the chance to show what they could do in front of 600,000 people. So we have to stop thinking that everybody should be watching or listening to the CBC, and if we need to have a greater sense of who we are as Canadians, we should be able to go to the CBC.