Thank you very much. My question is for Friends of Canadian Media.
Over the last 15 years, over 500 newsrooms have shuttered across the country. That means thousands of jobs in every community across Canada gone. Those stories are not being told, especially ones that speak truth to power. These media deserts are unacceptable. In communities like mine, we haven't been able to depend on the CBC, whose studio has largely remained shuttered, with intermittent coverage over the years.
What responsibility does the CBC have to invest in local and regional journalism, so that journalists are telling our stories based in our regions, not in Winnipeg, not in Toronto, but in regions across northern and rural Canada?