Thank you.
I want to come back to Radio Canada International, RCI, whose main mandate is to broadcast internationally in different languages and to provide information about Canada. It has a complementary mandate to tell immigrants about Canada.
I am told that less and less radio news is being broadcast, that production staff is being told not to make news programming, and that the CBC seems to have abolished rules 14 and 18 in its corporate policy that explicitly require Radio Canada International to produce broadcasts aimed at overseas audiences.
I went onto the RCI website and it is true that, when you click on the national and international articles, you are taken directly to the Radio-Canada site. When you click on "Migrations et Immigration", you go to articles written by people who work for Radio Canada International.
Is the mandate changing? I am not saying that it has been abolished. Does one mandate take precedence over another? If so, how can that be done without contravening the act?
How much of that famous $15 million goes directly to Radio-Canada? As I understand it, those $15 million are supposed to go directly to Radio Canada International, and not be included in the corporation's overall budget.