Listen, I agree with you. It's a huge problem with the CBC in terms of pilfering talent. Local papers develop talent. Given your own background, you know this first-hand. Then they take them. They are making far more money with the CBC. It's a big issue.
That's why it's important that we have this legislation. It will get us on a more firm commercial footing. The one thing that I would ask you as members of the committee to look at—I know it was in the Liberal platform last summer during the election campaign—is to cut off advertising for CBC during their news and current affairs programs. We're competing with them head to head. They already have a $1.4-billion leg-up on us and we're competing with them for advertising. That's not fair. That's not right.
Don't get me wrong. There's a place for the public broadcaster in Canada. They do exceptional work. But they shouldn't be competing with private enterprises for commercial advertising.