I want to point out something important that I have realized over my 30-year career with CBC/Radio-Canada. I have seen and felt a lot of cuts. When CBC/Radio-Canada leaves a region, stops covering a region, private companies that were in the same region follow suit. They feel that they no longer have to compete with CBC/Radio-Canada, since it is no longer there. So they take off. They pack up and leave. The effect is twice as bad because CBC/Radio-Canada is no longer there, and the private broadcaster figures that it does not have to stick around and spend money; there is no need to.
On May 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.