It's done, since it's always been done. To date, I believe Radio-Canada has largely managed to remain independent over the years. Perhaps there have been some attempts at influence, but, in the years when I worked there, we didn't feel any jolts internally, obviously.
However, that's part of CBC/Radio-Canada's history. The corporation has been cyclically called into question. Every five or six years, people wonder whether it should close or continue and what are the essential operational needs. I think that's the story of CBC/Radio-Canada, and that's the way it will always be. I imagine the same is true for any public television network. There are models around the world where we think that works quite well. All that is part of the spirit of an act. In any case, the government that decides to close CBC/Radio-Canada tomorrow morning would have to wage quite a battle with the Canadian public, at least a major national battle in Quebec.
In English Canada, however, people might be less inclined to support CBC/Radio-Canada, unfortunately, because they are more used to watching American programs and their stars are much more American than here in Quebec. So while people in Toronto look at Entertainment Tonight, in Quebec, they watch Flash, a program similar to Entertainment Tonight, but which focuses on Quebec stars. So there's an enormous difference between the two markets.
I think that a government that tried to abolish the CBC/Radio-Canada tomorrow morning would have quite a job of it in Quebec, at least in view of the public support for its public broadcaster.