Madam Chair, I thank my colleague for his very relevant question.
We both know how much of a flagship institution Radio-Canada is for Quebec, for francophone communities outside Quebec and for the survival of the French language in a virtually anglophone North America.
We're talking about eliminating two thirds of public funding, the portion that goes to CBC. Obviously, that would leave very little money for Radio-Canada's mission. In addition, so many jobs could be lost that the technical production capacity of our public broadcaster's francophone activities would also be compromised.
I think the impacts are obvious. I fail to understand how the Conservatives can make such a proposal while claiming that Canadians will agree to fund a public broadcaster only in French and while the rest of Canada would be deprived of access to a public broadcaster whose services are really provided by and for Canadians. That seems completely inconsistent and impossible to me.