To answer the last question, I would say that the system, both in French and in English, operates on the basis of fees. The same is true in Australia. That has never been applied here because we have always relied on appropriations. I'm not up to date on my reading. I know that CBC/Radio-Canada had requested multi-year funding in order to provide against parliamentary and government moods, but I don't know whether that solution is still being contemplated. To my knowledge, since CBC/Radio-Canada's inception, that solution has never been approved by any government whatever, for either radio or television.
With all due respect, I would say, despite what you are putting forward, that the balance between government subsidies and independent revenues generated by advertising affords CBC/Radio-Canada a certain degree of independence.
Moreover, even though I don't have the text of CBC/Radio-Canada's enabling statute before me, I believe it is a creation of the act and that it is governed by it. Claire referred earlier to those who would like to abolish it. However, any significant structural change in governance and decision-making within CBC/Radio-Canada would have to be debated in Parliament under the act.