When you look at the numbers—and the numbers are revealing, Ms. Thomas—CBC is not as well funded per capita as the broadcaster of any comparator country. Under us are only the U.S. and one other country, and we're pretty close to another.
There's general consensus that a robust publicly funded national broadcaster is important to democracies like ours. Do they get everything right? Certainly the answer is no, but it is important for them to be there to do exactly what they are supposed to do, which is to inform the public, for example, on issues of affordability.
Your party has been quite open about defunding the CBC, but I think that would undermine the trust of Canadians, who are relying on information from reliable providers to make those decisions as to who to vote for. They have been remarkably good at getting that information out, in my view.