No, no, I quite agree. I think that it's really important not to mistake commercial imperative for ratings. They're not the same thing. The CBC definitely should be concerned about ratings. People should watch. It's a broadcaster. We should have Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday, and we should have great children's programming, and we should have great programming that's arts oriented and documentary oriented. There are a lot of communities in Canada that make use of the CBC at different times. Not everybody watches television all the time every night on one channel. But when you have an appetite for sports, you know where to go. When you have an appetite for the arts, you know where to go. When you have an appetite for documentaries, you know where to go. There's a real difference between that and saying commercial considerations dominate.
On May 24th, 2007. See this statement in context.