I haven't considered this very much. My instinct is that you want to tread very carefully in this area. The CBC would appear to be very cash-strapped most of the time. If you were to eliminate a significant source of revenue, without having a serious plan to replace it and a serious plan to mandate them to do a certain kind of programming....
I understand the argument. I understand why the private broadcasters might feel that way. We're agnostic on this issue. It's not an issue for CAFDE members.
I think you don't want to weaken the public broadcasters. You want to certainly renew their mandate going forward, and we believe that part of that should be for feature film and part of that should be a strong commitment to drama. Both of those things are very expensive. So if the government is going to open the purse strings to make up the difference, I'm not sure it would make that much difference to the film distributors or the film industry, generally.
What would worry me is that the net result would be less money for the CBC to spend and therefore less commitment to drama and less commitment to feature film.