I would agree with you on CBC/Radio-Canada. It's a very good organization in this country.
CBC television.... I look at the numbers across the country, and they're not as powerful as they once were. I would imagine that the CTV network is finding that out. So are Global TV and others in this country too. The numbers that they once had have diminished greatly.
I just go back to the private versus the public. I worry, with Bill C-18 and with CBC involved with unlimited resources now and getting extra money from Google and Facebook, about what that will do to the medium and even small and large networks. It's hard enough today for them to compete, and with the extra revenue, considering what the PBO report said.... We'll say $150 million. I'll go with your number. That's a big number to the CBC, and the rest compete against that monstrosity of a news network that we do have.
They do good work; don't get me wrong. The CBC does good work. At the same time, it's taxpayer-fed, as we found out in the fall economic update, where they got $42 million, thank you, from the federal government for no reason whatsoever. That's where I'm coming from. It's going to be very hard for private companies to compete against the public broadcaster going forward if, in fact, CBC is going to be at the trough, as we expect they will be on Bill C-18.
That's all I have to say. Thank you very much, Madam Chair.