That's right, Madam Chair. I'll split with Mr. Waugh.
Mr. Minister, in your opening remarks, you talked about diversity and inclusion and funding that in your department, but many Canadians say that the CBC doesn't truly have a diversity of opinion.
We've heard several times at this committee from experts who have studied the CBC. There was Mike Fegelman, editor-in-chief of Honest Reporting Canada. His organization did a two-year study of the CBC's coverage on the Hamas-Israel war and found that the CBC elevated radical voices, including a radical anti-Zionist hate group. He said that giving them this platform bestows a kind of credibility, which they don't deserve. The study found that the CBC promoted ideology over facts and did so at the taxpayer's expense.
Another official from Honest Reporting Canada told us the CBC “is beating a very one-sided drum, a very one-sided narrative.... CBC is not telling Canadians how to think about an issue. They're showing Canadians what to think about [an] issue, and that should not be the role of our public broadcaster.”
It's clear that many Canadians don't trust the CBC. Considering it's your department funding the CBC, what's being done to address the very broad and dangerous issues of bias in reporting?