I said it earlier, and I think Martin Champoux said that without Radio-Canada in the minority language communities—I'm talking about francophones in Edmonton, in North Bay, all over the country—there would be no French news service available to them.
I tried to mention our role in the north. Natan Obed, president of ITK, said unequivocally at the conference last week here in Ottawa that there would be no Inuktitut in this country if not for the CBC. The CBC has been in the north since 1958, broadcasting in Inuktitut. Without the CBC, that language would have disappeared.
These are the kinds of things that the CBC does for this country, and I can only say that it would be a tragedy to lose them.