Thank you, Madam Chair.
Hello to both of our witnesses. Thank you for being with us today.
I'm wondering if you could go back a bit to this notion of defunding the CBC. I think, on this side of the committee room, we're in firm agreement about the value of the narrative-building and the exposure of our athletes, arts and culture. There's tremendous value in the CBC.
There will be two parts to this question.
One, I'm curious about whether you could re-offer the per capita cost of what we're spending here in Canada compared with other countries. I believe my colleague Mr. Champoux started on that. I think it would be interesting to set the conversation around how much value we're getting, given the cost and what we're investing in the CBC. It strikes me as quite impressive.
By extension, we hear about, for example, the challenge of hiring in rural parts of the country—as my other colleague addressed—for your workplace and the CBC community. This defund narrative, with its tweets and in front of the headquarters in Toronto, is diminishing and reducing, in a sense, the value, while fuelling that discussion around defunding the CBC.
How does that impact your ability to recruit the talent you need, from both a resource perspective and a morale perspective? What is the impact of this line of thinking being advanced around the CBC?