Thanks, Mr. Diotte. I remember, and I won't tell if you won't tell.
How do they remain objective? I think that's a big challenge. I think it's an enormous challenge. It's a challenge for public broadcasters everywhere. The best way for it not to get into the situation the CBC was in a year and a half ago, when it had roughly 40% of Canadians comfortable with defunding it, is to be as good as possible at the job.
The firewalls that are necessary.... You can get into all sorts of structural things, but it really just becomes a matter of self-awareness in a newsroom and aspiring to the principle of objectivity, which I fear has been abandoned by journalists in recent years. It's part of the woke movement that objectivity is impossible and what matters is the narrative. Until journalism itself gets back to aspiring to objectivity, as it did for about 100 years, I don't think there's any hope that money won't distort the equation.
