This is, as you've said, a big challenge, but it has to be seen, I feel, in terms of democratic choice of pluralism and diversity and all those components of democracy.
This is different from the glue holding the country together. What I was saying is that I frankly believe that it doesn't make sense any more to ask a network that has so little audience to be the glue holding the country together. But that doesn't mean--on the contrary--that this network doesn't have a democratic choice.
Let me take this example. In terms of foreign affairs and Canadian foreign policy, what other television network, except the CBC, can keep us informed on the role of Canada abroad? Only the CBC has many correspondents around the world. I know that what I'm saying has been said by many people before, but in the context of your question I think this is important to repeat.
If we want to have our own foreign policy, we need to have our eyes abroad explaining to us in terms of relevance for Canadians what is going on abroad.