I couldn't agree with you more that part of the essential job of the public broadcaster is to be close to people's concerns. That's how you build trust: by being in their community and reporting on issues that they need to know about. Then you build from there to have national news and to have international news that they trust.
It's really been a hardship that, as a country, we haven't been able to support more local journalism, not only at the CBC but in private outlets as well. That's a very big concern, and that would be a very big focus for me.