I have a question for the officials.
I support this amendment, “designation of a provincial public broadcaster”, that cabinet has some ability to parse through the provincial broadcasters.... That's particularly in light of what we've seen coming out of Alberta with the UCP government using taxpayers' funding to put out a pseudo perversion of journalism. They put things out to attack folks who have been raising environmental concerns about UCP policy. They have been doing all kinds of attack jobs using public funds.
This is the important thing, Madam Chair. These are public funds that the UCP is using against its own citizens. It's a public broadcaster, if you like. Again, we saw the Doug Ford government in Ontario using public funds to go after the citizens of Ontario.
My question to the officials quite simply is this: In a case where the UCP public broadcaster tries to come in—obviously if they are willing to use taxpayers' funds to fund this trash that they put out—