Across our country we have a real mix in terms of servicing local needs. I'm not talking about national programming here. In my region in northern Ontario, CTV does excellent news coverage for the region. We don't have CBC television. For our francophone service we rely on Radio-Canada for television, but in terms of radio, CBC/Radio-Canada plays an essential role. If we lost our service out of Sudbury, our rural francophone communities would be just cast adrift.
I'm concerned, given the last round of cutbacks at CBC—because your attempt to get that bridge financing wasn't approved by the government—that it had a major effect on radio programming and it affected the regions.
What would the effect of a 10% or a 20% cut in the upcoming federal budget do to your ability to service the regions of the country and especially to francophone communities outside of Quebec, that those services will be maintained at the level they have been historically?