I think you certainly have to get it out of being a commercial competitor. I think that if the government's going to.... If you want a public broadcaster—and there are some good cases, like up north, CBC North.... I think that's not a region that has a market. You can't let market forces serve the far north, so I think there's good reason for a public broadcaster there, but you have to get it out of the commercial business, because the commercial business, both out of Toronto and Montreal, distorts its coverage.
In English, it's trying to serve primarily the GTA, which is a key advertising market. It's similar for Montreal in French. You have to get it out of that and make it a pure-play public broadcaster, for starters, and then you need to overhaul it with a proper, fully pan-Canadian approach that focuses on what its core mandate is, which is just telling Canadians all about other Canadians, and to stop being a commercial competitor and trying to pretend that it has to battle with CNN and be a sort of mini-CNN in Toronto.
