As for my own decision not to have cable or satellite, it's partly income-driven. I'm actually here today as a volunteer. As we all do, we have money for certain things and we figure out our priorities. In my case, there's a whole range of structural problems with the Canadian broadcast system, which means to me that there isn't much on cable or satellite. They're all re-purposing programming because we've taken away genre specificity. We've taken away sources of funding support for local programming so there's very little of that. There's a whole other range of reasons that I'm satisfied with the free channels that I get. Ottawa is served by about 15 free French and English language over-the-air television channels, so we're in a unique position here because of that.
On March 2nd, 2011. See this statement in context.