With respect, I don't think I accept your characterization.There is no one who woke up that morning and said, “Let's wilfully ignore a rally of 7,000 people”. I could quite happily go back.... You know, I'll go back after this meeting and retrace that, but there is no day when there aren't a multitude of groups--interest groups, groups of people--that feel their particular event deserves coverage on our airwaves more than something else. That's part of the territory.
In fairness, I think probably a more accurate way of assessing it is whether a lot of these issues, including the one you're referring to, have received incredible attention on the CBC in a multitude of ways. I don't know what the staffing or the resource issue was that day with that story. We're limited in Ottawa; we can't cover the number of stories we want to in Ottawa. These are the kinds of choices that are made, and we stand by them, but I'll go into that in detail if you want.