A great deal of film and television production in Canada is driven by domestic broadcasters, partly because of CRTC regulations, partly because CBC classically engages and invests significantly in domestic television. The mandate of CBC has been growing for years in the digital age, with new kinds of content that need delivery, but CBC's budget has not been growing. In 18 years it has had about 8% of increases overall on the part of the Government of Canada, compared with roughly 71% in other cultural expenditures. So it has, in a way, been on ice—I'll put it that way—but its job has been growing larger.
In the view of my own organization, as well as many other cultural unions, it would be very serious to see CBC diminished as a producer of Canadian content.