There are many parts to your question, but I'll try to give you as brief an answer as possible.
As I said, Radio-Canada is a national treasure and a strong public broadcaster that meets high, internationally recognized standards.
I have in my hand a short quotation from something I read on the UN website. Andrei Richter, a professor at Comenius University, in Bratislava, wrote as follows:
In the modern cacophony of contradicting messages, disinformation and conflicting interpretations of events, [the public service media] is the voice of quality and investigative journalism, of fact-checking, context and reason. In this regard, [the public service media] is capable of establishing a standard for commercial media in the dissemination of timely and reliable information to the public, especially in emergency situations.
I think that tidily sums up Radio-Canada's mandate. What you have to remember is that the government and the Canadian people have mandated that the public broadcaster provide this service across Canada. Radio-Canada has to account for itself to the people of Manitoba, northern Quebec and British Columbia, in particular, and that's what it's doing.
Should we question its budget and management? We should definitely have that conversation so Radio-Canada can modernize. We need to have that discussion, but we have to do it with an open mind. There can be no ideological distractions. We need to give the Canadian people excellent television and continue doing so into the future. It's true that cutting or cancelling the CBC's funding would have an impact on Radio-Canada in Quebec, even though that's not clearly and precisely stated.