That's a very important question. At some point in time, forbearance is no longer a virtue, and when you cross a certain point the public broadcaster needs to stand for its employees, its brand, its journalistic activities, and the quality of the services it renders to Canadians every day. The information circulated by and promoted by Quebecor goes to the brand, distorts the story to the point where I don't even recognize my expenses. Last week there was a story about an important project that we're trying to do in Montreal. We're trying to scale down our building. We have about 1,300,000 square feet in Montreal. We'd like to reduce that to about 800,000 or 900,000 square feet. We have no dollars to do that. So what we're trying to do in Montreal is get a developer interested in the land. The developer would take the risk, and we'd take the upside, but we would be improving our facilities by scaling down, at no cost to the taxpayer. This is what we are supposed to do—maximize the value of the assets we have. When we do that the headline in the newspapers says a Taj Mahal is being built in Montreal by the CBC. That's the kind of stuff that we have to stand up and denounce.
On November 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.