Yes, but he's still an incredibly valuable reporter for CBC news.
You characterized the challenge accurately. I don't think there's any organization, really, that was as conscious of the BBC scandal as CBC/Radio-Canada was. We really learned from that, both in terms of how the BBC approached the issue and how the government responded, imagining how that same situation could play itself in Canada.
I think there has been, over the years, a dogged determination on the part of the CBC to maintain its independence of government. The tensions between the CBC and the government over a variety of issues, including news and current affairs, are quite well known. It's something that comes with the territory.
I think you're right about the financial instability of the CBC. That's worrisome to everybody, including many of us as Canadians, not only as CBC employees. We try to provide, and I indicated some of them in my opening remarks, through our policy book and through our different kinds of safeguards, enough mechanisms so that at least the Canadian public can be confident they're getting the straight goods from the CBC--flawed on occasion, but the straight goods. Our hope is that we'll be able to maintain and endure any kinds of pressures we get, not only from government but from any side.