I think that, in the age of intense disinformation that we're all living through, there is less social cohesion as falsities are propagated through media sources, both legitimate and illegitimate. Integral to a healthy democracy.... Indeed, the fourth pillar of our democracy is a healthy media ecosystem that exercises, rightly, its freedom of expression. Again, integral to that is a state-financed—not state-controlled—public media. That is CBC/Radio-Canada. Indeed, the CBC's mandate is ferociously independent, and we should all defend that, whether they are saying good or bad things about us.
When there is a lack of support for a public broadcaster, I think that contributes to the spread of disinformation, and social cohesion is therefore affected. It's not about any sort of command and control of the media system that you may see in other countries, but indeed it is part of, and integral to, a healthy democracy.